Exclusive: Video Shows Broward HS Student Attacked & She Demands Answers

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BROWARD (CBSMiami) – A girl and her father are demanding answers after she was attacked just outside her school – which was caught on video.

The student, 14-year-old Jani, said she was walking along Federal Highway just outside South Broward High School a couple Fridays ago. She was with a bunch of other students who had stayed at school for a pep rally. That's when the teen said a female student attacked her for no reason.

The video camera started recording just moments before a girl runs and tracks down Jani outside the school on October 16. Next, the girl starts attacking Jani, wailing on her. Other people seem to either join in or try to pull them apart. Eventually the girl in the green shirt is tossed on the ground. Some students laugh at the attack and, eventually, a couple of Good Samaritans step in to break things up.

"I tried to defend myself but more friends of hers came in and I fell on the floor," Jani, who asked that we not use her last name, told CBS 4's Carey Codd.

Jani said she doesn't know the girls who attacked her, doesn't have classes with them and has never had any interactions with them at all.

Jani is in ESOL classes and has only been in the U.S. for little more than a year. She fears that she might have been attacked because she's a freshman or because she's Hispanic and doesn't speak English.

"They can't do that because they have to put themselves in our shoes," she said.

During the fight, Jani was hit in the head, split her lips and hurt her back. She says that when she started heading to the school office to tell school officials what happened, the girls threatened her. Her father, Harold, wants the attackers punished.

"I'm sad," he said. "I send my girl to school with hopes she becomes a better person and to guarantee a better life and have a future in this country and these types of things are happening."

Jani's father refused to send her back to South Broward and says the school district hasn't done anything to get her into another school.

Her attorney, Patrick Lawlor, wants to get Jani transferred to another school. He also wants the students charged criminally and for the school to see if Jani is the only victim of this type of attack.

"Have there been other people of ethnic backgrounds, Hispanic backgrounds or Haitian backgrounds at that school or others schools – particularly South Broward – where maybe this has happened?," Lawlor said.

Jani said she is speaking out to help empower other victims of attacks like these to speak up.

"Don't be afraid to talk because if you stay quiet they're going to keep doing what they're doing," she said.

The Hollywood Police Department tells CBS4 News that they took a report and says they referred the family to the State Attorney's Office to possibly file criminal charges.

CBS4 News is still awaiting a response from the Broward County School Board on what's being done to try and get Jani into another school.