A Bellevue teen is facing charges after reportedly attacking another student.
Fifteen year old Bellevue West sophomore Aubreigh Burley was hospitalized on Monday after being assaulted by a fellow female student. Burley suffered a concussion during the altercation where she was reportedly punched multiple times before hitting her head on a wall and falling to the floor.
Burley's mom, Katie Wibbels, tells NewsRadio 1110 KFAB that her daughter didn't fight back against her attacker. "She did not, there was no time."
Wibbels says her daughter and the other student have had a history of problems stemming from a boy, and that the assault didn't come from out of the blue. "There's been trouble with this individual and her sister. Since the beginning of the year, there's been multiple times that all three of them have been in to the dean's office regarding what's been going on at school." Wibbels says one of those instances happened to come just hours before the assaulted happened.
Wibbels says she tried to alert school staff that something like this was going to happen, but it didn't stop the attack on her daughter. "I want people to start making a change. To start having tougher consequences on these kids that are acting this way in our schools and making other children feel unsafe. My daughter is not the only on going through things like this."
Although she isn't sure what will happen yet, Wibbels wants to make sure those responsible are punished. "It is not ok for us not to know whether our children are going to survive the day without being assaulted, without being harassed, without being bullied. Making kids pay for their behavior is what needs to be done."
Bellevue Police have ticketed the 15 year old student who allegedly attacked Burley for Third Degree Assault.