A young mother said she and her 9-year-old son were beaten by a group of children and teens while walking Monday on Chicago's Far South Side, just blocks away from a Chicago Public School.

According to police, the 33-year-old woman and her 9-year-old son were walking just after 3 p.m. in the 10600 block of South Bensley Avenue when "a group of offenders approached and struck the victims multiple times."

Both the mom and son were taken to an area hospital, where they were initially listed in "serious condition."

Carshawnda Hatter said the situation stemmed from bullying at Chicago's Orville Bright Elementary School in the South Deering neighborhood.

"I can’t sleep because I wake up in the middle of the night with that vision in my head of my son calling my name to help him and I couldn’

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