Girl, 9, suffers a concussion and two black eyes after she was 'viciously attacked by a bully while walking to class' - but the school tells her mother she fell
- Lanny Turpin was beat up in an incident at her elementary school last Friday
- The nine-year-old girl is a student at L.E. Wilson Elementary School in Alabama
- Lanny's mom, Kelly Turpin, said bully attacked her daughter after an argument
- The school's principal could not comment on the specific incident when asked
Shocking photos show the damage done to a young student whose mother claims she viciously attacked by a bully while walking to class.
Lanny Turpin suffered a concussion and two black eyes at L.E. Wilson Elementary School in Sheffield, Alabama, on Friday.
Kelly Turpin told Alabama.com her nine-year-old daughter was set upon by a bully after an argument over another one of her friends.
But when she was called to the school, she was initially told her daughter had 'fell and was hurt accidentally'.
![Lanny Turpin (pictured) had to be rushed to hospital after she was allegedly attacked by a bully at school last week](http://web.archive.org./web/20170208235029/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/08/16/3CF7E12200000578-0-image-m-23_1486571453063.jpg)
Lanny Turpin (pictured) had to be rushed to hospital after she was allegedly attacked by a bully at school last week
'The nurse started telling me my daughter fell and was hurt accidentally, but my daughter said "No mom, it wasn't an accident",' Turpin told the website.
She then said her daughter had been walking to an art class when another child grabbed her and jumped on top of her.
Lanny told her mom the girl who attacked her, 'did not want her being friends with another person,' Alabama.com reports.
![Lanny Turpin suffered a concussion and two black eyes in the attack at L.E. Wilson Elementary School in Sheffield, Alabama, on Friday, according to her distraught mother](http://web.archive.org./web/20170208235029/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/08/16/3CF7E11D00000578-0-image-m-42_1486572162179.jpg)
![Lanny told her mom the girl who attacked her, 'did not want her being friends with another person'](http://web.archive.org./web/20170208235029/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/08/16/3CF7E11900000578-0-image-m-28_1486571614687.jpg)
Lanny Turpin (pictured) suffered a concussion and two black eyes in the attack at L.E. Wilson Elementary School in Sheffield, Alabama, on Friday, according to her distraught mother
![Kelly Turpin posted a series of pictures on her Facebook account showing the injuries her daughter (pictured) suffered](http://web.archive.org./web/20170208235029/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/08/16/3CF7E11500000578-0-image-a-31_1486571793665.jpg)
Kelly Turpin posted a series of pictures on her Facebook account showing the injuries her daughter (pictured) suffered
The girl allegedly apologized and asked for Lanny not to tell anyone she did it after the attack, which saw the nine-year-old hit her head on a pole while falling to the ground.
The nine-year-old was rushed from school to a nearby hospital for a CT scan.
It had initially been feared some bleeding behind her eye could be problematic, but she has since been given the all clear.
Kelly Turpin posted a series of pictures on her Facebook account showing the injuries her daughter suffered.
They show her with scrapes above her left eye, and dark red swelling around her eye.
![Turpin provided an account of the incident she said on Facebook, saying it took place after her daughter: 'was being nice to a mentally challenged child and the other girl didn't like it'](http://web.archive.org./web/20170208235029/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/08/16/3CF7E12D00000578-0-image-m-37_1486571860944.jpg)
![Turpin claimed the school has a problem with bullying, and that other parents have alleged the same](http://web.archive.org./web/20170208235029/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/08/16/3CF7E13100000578-0-image-m-39_1486571879448.jpg)
Turpin provided an account of the incident she said on Facebook, saying it took place after her daughter: 'was being nice to a mentally challenged child and the other girl didn't like it'
![L.E. Wilson Elementary School (pictured) Principal Tony Willis did not comment specifically on the incident](http://web.archive.org./web/20170208235029/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/02/08/16/3CF7E13A00000578-0-image-m-41_1486571901035.jpg)
L.E. Wilson Elementary School (pictured) Principal Tony Willis did not comment specifically on the incident
Turpin provided another account of the incident as well, which she said on Facebook took place after her daughter: 'was being nice to a mentally-challenged child and the other girl didn't like it'.
L.E. Wilson Elementary School Principal Tony Willis did not comment specifically on the incident, but he provided a statement to Alabama.com.
'With any incident, we're going to look into it and follow our code of conduct to the letter,' he said.
'We try to be proactive rather than reactive and make sure students are comfortable enough to talk with us when they encounter problems.'
Turpin claimed the school has a problem with bullying, and that other parents have alleged the same, according to Alabama.com.
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