Internet 'skull-breaker challenge' causes serious injury to teen with special needs; 2 girls charged - 11Alive.com WXIA

WHITE COUNTY, Ga. — Two teenage girls are facing charges aft a lad with peculiar needs was earnestly injured during a unsafe net challenge.

Brandy Kendall said her lad has a concussion and blurred vision, but astir of all, he's heartbroken that helium was humiliated. Kendall wants to pass different parents that this is happening.

Online, it's called the "skull-breaker challenge." Videos of the unsafe stunt usually amusement 2 radical kicking the legs retired from nether a 3rd arsenic they each jump. There person been reports of children getting hurt from doing the challenge.

Kendall said her 15-year-old lad has peculiar needs and was targeted for the situation by 2 girls helium thought were his friends. Her lad thought they were each successful connected the joke.

"Jaden has a bosom of gold. And I felt similar helium was targeted. He has peculiar needs. And the girls conscionable said, 'hey, let's get let's spell get Jaden.' Of each the radical that they could person picked and they said, 'Let's spell get Jaden,'" she said. 

She said erstwhile her lad jumped, the video shows the 2 girls kicking his legs retired from nether him and helium falls backward into a ceramic wall. Doctors told her helium had a concussion and blurred vision.

TikTok said it removes the videos with that hashtag from its level and a hunt of the website for that situation redirects users to a leafage that gives counseling resources.

"There is nary gag astir it and it's not funny. And you tin extremity up successful the infirmary with breached bones, concussions similar Jaden. And past psychologically, it's beauteous atrocious arsenic well," she said.

She said the videos tagged connected the level are present different radical informing kids not to bash it.

"Children with breached arms. Children erstwhile cervix braces," she said. "And determination has been a batch of different radical that are saying bash not bash this. So erstwhile these girls look this up, they knew precisely what they were, what was going to hap and what could beryllium the consequences."

The schoolhouse referred the video to the White County Sheriff’s Office and they charged the 2 girls with aggravated artillery and disorderly conduct.

White County Schools Superintendent Laurie Burkett said erstwhile she saw the video, she instantly referred it to the police. She said determination volition beryllium consequences successful schoolhouse arsenic well.

Burkett wanted different educators to beryllium connected the lookout for it, too, due to the fact that she said it's happening successful schools each implicit the state.

11Alive obtained the pursuing connection from White County Schools below: 

On Friday afternoon, White County High School administrators were made alert of a video that was posted connected societal media involving a TikTok challenge. White County School System takes each reports relating to pupil information seriously, and truthful a thorough probe was conducted upon receiving the report.  Based connected the results of the investigation, pupil disciplinary procedures were followed successful accordance with our Code of Conduct. Due to the quality of the incident, instrumentality enforcement was notified, and we are afloat cooperating with their investigation. Our schoolhouse strategy is not unsocial successful addressing antagonistic pupil behaviors resulting from the interaction of societal media. White County School System volition proceed to code each situations successful bid to beforehand the information and well-being of each of our students.