Video Release of Teenagers Bullying Cequan Haskins on Bus

by Emily Sutherlin | July 25, 2012 at 07:56 am

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Cequan Haskins was bullied and tortured on a bus ride home by two fifteen year old boys and his mother wants to stop bullying.

Newly released video shows in disturbing detail how much a 10-year-old boy suffered during a school bus beatdown last year.

The footage was released Friday at a press conference in Appomattox, Va., organized by the mother of Cequan Haskins, Roxanne, who wanted to show the public how bad the abuse was.

Forty grueling minutes of physical and verbal bullying was all caught on tape aboard the school bus transporting Cequan Haskins.

Some parts are harder to watch than others. At one point, the two 15-year-old school mates of Haskins hold a hot cigarette lighter to his skin.

The abuse included name calling, racial and sexual slurs.

Bus driver Nancy Davis can be heard as well. Months ago, the tape played a crucial part in her own child neglect trial. An Appomattox County jury, however, acquitted her of all charges.

"Ugh, anything to get him quiet! I've got to drive this bus," Davis can be heard saying.

"My son, he was a special needs child and he didn't deserve this. He was entitled to a safe transportation just like any other child in the Appomattox County Public School System," said Roxanne Haskins, Cequan's mother.

But she says instead, her son was left with physical and emotional scars. Since the incident he's received hours of therapy and been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Both teens on board the bus were found guilty of disorderly conduct and assault and battery, back in 2011. Currently, Haskins is awaiting a trial date in her civil case against the Appomattox County School Board.

The video below is disheartening, cruel and sad, similar to the incident in which a bus monitor, Karen Klein Huff, was verbally assaulted by a group of middle schoolers.

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batvette

at 08:39 on July 25th, 2012

Strangely missing is the parts of the clip which would display this "special needs child's" actions which instigated the statements "sit down and shut up" and more importantly the statement from the driver "Ugh, anything to get him quiet! I've got to drive this bus,"

While some may rush to say nothing justifies "torture" well I'd say nothing justifies only one side of a story being told. (not the fault of the author it appears)
His mother said "He was entitled to a safe transportation just like any other child in the Appomattox County Public School System,"
While that is true, it sounds to me, from the aggravation of the driver, it was likely he who first caused the safety of anyone's children to be jeopardized on that bus.
Let me finally say when I was a child, entering kindergarten in 1968, we didn't have all these designer names for afflictions that has resulted in huge numbers of kids in public schools all riding the short bus as "special needs" kids. I had issues later diagnosed as ADHD, but in the early years it was just being "the disruptive kid" and if I got too far out of hand I'd get pounded during recess by the other kids. As life really does work that way and nobody is going to hold your hand or wipe your pee pee for you for the rest of your life I'm not sure the old way wasn't a lot better in the long run. This kid is now going to have a bulls eye on his back for the rest of his school years.

PeaceFrog

at 09:08 on July 25th, 2012

Batvette,

Only an animal like yourself could condone two physically larger, and five years older, boys doing this. Your rationalizations make it clear that you have deeply rooted issues that you never dealt with aside from any gang stalking victimization in your later life.

You write,

This kid is now going to have a bulls eye on his back for the rest of his school years.

You certainly seem to be in the know about how community mobbing starts. Why don't you just have the balls to finish that statement with 1. He will have a dramatically higher risk for suicide, or 2. He might grow up to be a mass shooter, or, 3. There is a good chance he will acquiesce to the bullying and join the Program (I think you chose #3).

batvette

at 12:13 on July 25th, 2012

Stop stalking me.

Isaiah Heath (not verified)

at 22:35 on July 25th, 2012

I'm curious to hear your opinion on Karen Klein, because i'm not even sure on what to say about your comment.

batvette

at 06:24 on July 27th, 2012

I do not comment for the benefit of anyone's curiosity.

an anonymous comment (not verified)

at 15:46 on July 25th, 2012

batvette to the previous commenter: "Stop stalking me." LOL -- It's called a comment.

batvette

at 16:22 on July 25th, 2012

You appear to be the same sock/meat puppet this stalker uses in his articles to attack readers.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Elizabeth_Blandra

The one wikipedia determined was a sock puppet account of user peacefrog 71.

His/Your comment was in violation of NowPublic code of conduct.

This user spams his own and other people's articles with repetetive C/P wall o text personal attacks as well as signing out and recommending his own comments dozens of times each. You play his sock puppet pretending to be up to a hundred individuals, trolling legitimate readers.

You people have made a mockery of public discussions at NowPublic and are probably a primary reason why site traffic has fallen drastically in the last 3 years.

Nobody likes getting trolled. That's all you do.

I challenge NowPublic admin to retain at least a superficial appearance of control and observe how many different pseudonyms this "anonymous" has assumed while posting endless personal attacks on other readers. See all the multiple recommendations made while signed out. See how they spam articles, gaming NowPublic's spam filters.

PeaceFrog

at 17:39 on July 25th, 2012

Batvette, the Protector of Integrity, who had two FOX NEWS Stories and Official DOJ Documents ALL related to gang stalking removed from Wikipedia. YOU are the biggest troll on this site.

batvette

at 06:22 on July 27th, 2012

The above person is documenting my edits at wikipedia, mentions them here, and is not stalking me.

Give me a break.

anonymous, too (not verified)

at 07:35 on July 27th, 2012

www.nowpublic.com/world/gang-stalking-cointelpro?page=8 (Take a look at batvette's comments to PeaceFrog's articles and decide for yourself if anyone is "stalking" the bully-boy himself "batvette." Several months ago, batvette had one of his comments deleted from an excellent article about George Zimmerman by Karen Hatter. He was unable to post to NP for a week. How often does THAT happen? It must have been some comment. It's a case of the bully crying foul when attacked.

batvette

at 07:42 on July 27th, 2012

stalker alert.

Predictable (not verified)

at 08:44 on July 27th, 2012

Take a look in ye olde mirror.

an anonymous comment (not verified)

at 18:12 on July 25th, 2012

Wow. Try meditation.

an anonymous comment (not verified)

at 18:31 on July 25th, 2012

batvette: Wow. Try meditation.

observing (not verified)

at 21:15 on July 25th, 2012

Find yourself a life, batvette. I'm mean, really. (Thanks for the update on this story, Emily.)

tikun

at 21:50 on July 25th, 2012

Admin no longer responds to any queries about the insanity and in some rare cases anti-Semitic articles. This site is on its way into oblivion. The Admin. are the most irresponsible people ever hired.