Corshawnda Hatter speaks out after violent beating near Orville T. Bright Elementary caught on video: ‘So much pain’

CHICAGO (WLS) — The mother who was captured on video being attacked near a Far South Side school spoke out Wednesday.

This is not how she says she wants to world to see her.

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Corshawnda Hatter has sickle cell disease, but she says she’s never endured such pain.

“So much pain, emotional, physical, I’m not feeling good at all,” Hatter said.

Hatter is still receiving treatment for the serious beating she took Monday, as she walked her two kids home from Bright Elementary School.

Hatter says she told the school staff for two years her son was being bullied. Sometimes, she says, older kids would follow him home.

“For two years, and they have not done a thing,” she said. “They see me coming they will run or tell security to tell me they are not there.”

Video shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook shows the attack.

It shows the 33-year-old woman being punched and eventually falling to the ground, where the assault turns even more violent.

ABC7 Chicago froze the video because it’s too graphic after that point.

ABC7 Chicago also blurred the faces of the people involved because they’re minors, and no charges have been filed.

Hatter and her 9-year-old son were taken to a hospital in serious condition after the attack.

“I was at work. If I had been with them, it won’t have happened,” DeVon Lee Sr. said.

Lee is the kids’ father.

“I want justice. I want the school to be responsible, the parents and the kids that were doing all that mess,” Lee said.

Hatter said her whole body hurts, but she’s trying to be there for her children who have endured so much trauma.

“They both are devastated. My son will jump out of his sleep at night calling my name,” she said.

“We also have trauma, too. I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t sleep at all. I had to force myself to sleep because every time I close my eyes I see the video,” Lee said.

The city’s deputy mayor said they are working on getting more help for the family and the other families in that community.

And a donation box at Living Fresh Market in Forest Park was installed to help the family and others who may need clothes and toys this season.

There was also a rally Tuesday of parents and residents in front of Bright school.

Hatter said, amid her pain, she is able to find gratitude.

“I thank god for those people; I never felt this much love in the world,” she said.

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