Imagine waiting for your child to come home from school. You receive an alert that the bus has left the school, then get a call from an unknown number stating that your child has been injured and you need to meet the bus immediately.

That’s what happened to Ashleigh Sargent last Thursday.

When she met the bus, she found her son, Grayson, holding paper towels to his head, blood running down the side of his face.

“He was holding paper towels onto his head, blood everywhere down his side of his face. I couldn’t tell, is this multiple injuries? Is it one? What are we looking at? What are we dealing with?” Sargent said.

Grayson, who’s a 5th grader at Wards Creek Elementary School, told his mother he was sitting on the bus talking to friends when someone slammed a backpack down on his head t

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