Mom claims son was assaulted at Priest Elementary

Now to this, a Detroit mother is seeking justice tonight for her young autistic son. She says he was assaulted at school and wants a teacher's aid removed. Fox 2's Lauren Edwards joins us live in Detroit with the latest on this story. Lauren, what happened? Ruth, we spoke with the mother just a few short hours ago, and she is on a mission. All she wants is for her child to be safe at school, but says recently he came home and was traumatized. Let's get into the details and everything you need to know. Now, her name is Chyna Hocking and says back on October 5th, her eight-year-old son, who has autism was dropped off at Priest Elementary around 9:54 a.m. minutes later she says parents were called and told to pick him up because he was kicking now later that night she received a phone call from the school principal and officials saying that her son quote might have been kicked two days later she went up to the school and says she was told that he was in fact kicked she filed a police report and also asked to see the security video of the incident but that didn't happen until the following day. Hocking says she saw that video and it was much more than just a kick. Hocking says there was grabbing and hitting by the teacher's aid and she says immediately when she saw the video she broke down in tears. Cried. I cried. I cried. I walked out the school at all. Everybody I went to Western to view it because they had to they had to be at a school to hook it up and view it. I was dropping my son. I remember him telling me when I was coming out the office I was just I couldn't even talk I said go to class go to class I'm just everybody's just looking at me he's like okay mom like go to class go to class I was in the parking lot crying I have teenagers coming to my door what's wrong opening my door hugging me asking me what's wrong because I just seen my child get abused by somebody who was supposed to protect him. Now Fox 2 reached out to Detroit Public Schools District and they say that an investigation has been launched and that the employee was removed and will not be returning to Priest Elementary the statement goes on to say quote federal privacy laws and personnel confidentiality requirements limit what we can share publicly however we are committed to addressing concerns through appropriate district procedures working collaboratively with families and protecting the rights of every student now to read that full statement you could head to fox2detroit.com but Hocking says that she did put in a freedom of information act to obtain a copy of that video but she simply just wants answers and wants to know why that aid wasn't removed much much sooner again we're going to get into all that too coming up on the edge for now reporting live here in Detroit, Lauren Edwards, Fox 2 News. Yeah, Lauren, any idea in this particular incident how long it took for this uh alleged uh you know beating of or the pulling and the pushing and the kicking when did it end was it a few minutes was it longer than that it appears to be a few minutes because she says that the dad dropped him off at 9 54 and then they were called I would say around 10:08 to come and pick him up so something happened between that short time and that's where a lot of this lies is what happened how would happen what got started but also who knew what when and these are all questions that she's asking questions that we're asking as well yeah who may have intercepted this whole thing and stopped it from continuing we'll have to wait I guess for the video for that Freedom of Information Act, our Lauren Edwards for us live tonight. Lauren, thank you.