Law enforcement officials in North Carolina have launched a criminal investigation after a cellphone video emerged on Facebook showing a legally blind high school student being bullied and having his phone stolen and then shattered.
The video was uploaded to Facebook by Donnie Morton, who wrote that on Tuesday, his nephew Michael Wishon, who turned 17 that very day, was in a masonry class at South Stokes High School when a classmate snatched his iPhone 5 out of his bookbag and smashed it with a brick.
The alleged bully then used his own phone to videotape himself taunting Michael, who is blind in one eye and has other special needs, with the rest of his classmates 'watching and laughing at him.' That footage was later shared on Snapchat.
Cruel: Special-needs high school student Michael Wishon (left) was seen on video allegedly being bullied and having his cellphone stolen and smashed
Michael's uncle wrote the teen was in his Tuesday masonry class when another boy fished his iPhone out of his book bag and smashed it with a brick
The video recorded by the alleged culprit shows the boy mocking and taunting Wishon
The shaky cellphone video also shows Michael’s masonry teacher lecturing the boy that had he kept his phone in his bag instead of having it out in the open, it would not have been broken.
At the end of the video, the boy recording the video approaches Michael and mockingly asks him: ‘you have a comment on the 2018 phone breaking?’
When Michael brushes him off, the boy retorts: ‘I'm sorry for your loss.’
Morton wrote that the teen who smashed his nephew’s device was suspended for just one day after the school principal concluded that 'it was horse play and not malicious act...'
As of Friday afternoon, the video of the alleged bullying has been more than 93,000 times.
South County Schools responded to the uncle's complaint in a statement posted on Facebook Wednesday.
Wishon's uncle said the principal of South Stoke High School in North Carolina (pictured) suspended the bully for one day
It said that on Tuesday, the principal of South Stokes High School investigated the situation and administered discipline based on the school’s handbook.
The next morning, after the Facebook video went viral, the investigation was reopened, the principal further disciplined those involved, and the matter was referred to the Stoke County Sheriff's office.
The law enforcement agency later confirmed to WFMY that it is looking into the matter and criminal charges could be filed.
Michael’s mother, Kelly Wishon (left), said her legally blind son always comes home with gum stuck to his clothes
The district said state and federal privacy laws were preventing them from disclosing the names of the students, or revealing their punishment.
Michael’s mother, Kelly Wishon, said that Tuesday's incident has made her question her son's past treatment at the school.
‘He’s always coming home with chewed bubble gum stuck to him,’ she remarked.
On Friday, dozens of members of the group Bikers Against Bullies USA, Triad Chapter, escorted Michael to school and then staged a silent protest to raise awareness of bullying.
Meanwhile, a friend has launched a GoFundMe page raising money to replace the boy's broken phone and pay for a birthday celebration for him.
The description of the campaign said that Michael's father is terminally ill.
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Main photo article Law enforcement officials in North Carolina have launched a criminal investigation after a cellphone video emerged on Facebook showing a legally blind high school student being bullied and having his phone stolen and then shattered.
The video was uploaded to Facebook by Donnie Morton, who wrote...
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