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British mum Laney describes her seven-year-old son, Jak, as “quiet, caring, loving”.
Now, her little boy is recovering in hospital after a vicious attack by school bullies left him with a tennis-ball sized head injury.
"My son was bullied all this term by one child," Laney wrote on a Facebook page she has set up, called Justice For Jak.
"He has been whipped with skipping ropes, stabbed with a pencil, scratched, punched, called names, stabbed with paper clips, hit around the face with a tennis racket," she wrote.
Laney wrote that the bully, along with his brother and two friends, had "jumped on Jak's head" during one incident.
"But the latest incident on [March 23, 2017], the bully was hitting my son in school and pushed him so hard he hit his head on a metal pole. The school did not give him a head injury letter or even a cold compress," she wrote.
The next day, the bump on Jak's head was swollen. Five days later, Jak was put on antibiotics as the lump "had started leaking puss".
On April 1, when Jak was supposed to be celebrating his seventh birthday, he instead "sat in the toilet until his friends left his own party," Laney wrote.
The distraught mother said her son's pain was so bad he "cried all night in my bed".
Despite taking him to hospital numerous times, Laney was told Jak was simply suffering from a concussion. Almost two weeks after he hit his head, Jak underwent surgery to "drain the blood clot that had formed" in the lump and remove "pus that had gathered in his head".