https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/sixth-grade-boys-accused-of-assaulting-classmate-cutting-her-hair-at-private-virginia-school/2019/09/26/4383b83e-e085-11e9-b199-f638bf2c340f_story.html
Fairfax County police are investigating an alleged attack on a sixth-grade girl by three boys Monday at the private Christian school they attend in Springfield, Va.
The 12-year-old girl, who is African American, told police that three white sixth-grade classmates held her down, covered her mouth, called her insulting names and used scissors to cut several of her dreadlocks from her head during recess in the playground at Immanuel Christian School.
“I was about to go down the slide, and the three boys came up and surrounded me,” the girl said in an interview Thursday afternoon. “They were saying my hair was nappy and I was ugly and I shouldn’t have been born.”