Girl, 14, target of threats after racial slurs appear on Snapchat
"I can't even go to school without looks even from teachers," the 14-year-old eighth grader said.
Because of all the threats, this family asked us not to identify them. The girl is Hispanic, small for her age and soft-spoken.
On the evening of May 8, the family says they went shopping and out to eat. The eight grader says she didn't have her phone.
"The phone was at home charging," said her father.
When they got home, the teenager says she noticed a strange message about her Snapchat.
"Saying 'take everything you posted down, its very offensive,'" the girl said.
Racially charged messages that she says she didn't write were all over Snapchat.
"The hacker started adding other people on her account and starting messaging those people," said her mother.
All the nasty racial slurs were screen captured and passed along to many others. The girl found herself the target of multiple threats.
"I got an email saying she was hacked," her mother said.
The next day her dad says he met with the 7th grade principal and showed him emails from Snapchat stating his daughters account had been hacked.
I don't believe that he believed us," her father said.
In a statement to FOX 26, Klein ISD admits the Snapchat posts using racial slurs have caused a campus disruption, but school administrators say they have found no evidence to support the girl's claim that her account was hacked.
After missing several days, the girl returned with her mother for STAAR testing.
"I was in the office waiting and I could hear the whole commotion going on in the cafeteria," the mother said.
She says school staff helped her daughter get away from three girls who had cornered her in the cafeteria. The incident was caught on the school's surveillance camera.
What was the reaction from school officials?
"Pretty much saying they would discipline the kids and a phone call to their parents," said the mother.
"They could have had a knife. They could have had a gun. They could have left me there bleeding on the floor," the girl said. "That actually hurts to think that could happen."