SAPULPA -- A Sapulpa Public Schools employee is under fire after a 17-year-old student claims the assistant principal put his hands on her for videotaping a fight.
The words are loud and clear.
"All of a sudden the police come and he tackles one of the girls in the fight but she was done fighting and he was laying on her back and I had it on video," 17-year-old Danee Thomas said.
Thomas recorded a fight on school grounds on her cellphone.
"The assistant principal came to me and snatched my wrist up," she said. "So I'm like, 'No what are you doing? Stop let me go.'"
The junior says he took her phone and forced her to unlock it..
"When he hands my phone back, I look at it and it's cracked and then he deleted the videos," Thomas said.
Danee's aunt, Aleta, rushed to the high school.
"I said, 'Dd you touch my child? Did you grab her?'" Aleta Thomas said. "He said yes and he'd do it again."
After filing a police report, the 17-year-old sped to urgent care.
"The doctors confirmed it was a major sprain because of the swelling on it and everything," Thomas said. "I work at QuikTrip and I can't work for 10 days without any restriction."
"I haven't received an apology, an email or a call," Danee's aunt said.
A classmate claims the principal asked her to write a witness statement Monday, days after the fact.
"He said I can't write how I feel," Sapulpa junior Noelani Gomez said. "I have to write what I saw. I see him grab Danee's wrist and like he twists it and then he is trying to get the phone."
As Danee Thomas hopes for a speedy recovery, she won't be headed back to school and expects the district to set the record straight.
The school district says they're fully investigating the matter. They say all the facts deal with students and school personnel so they're not at liberty to comment. The district says they'll take appropriate action when all facts of the incident have been determined.
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