JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The mother of a student at Atlantic Coast High School is coming forward Tuesday, angry with the way she said her daughter was being treated at the school.
Shaneka Fowler said her daughter has been discriminated against for being gay and was the victim of a beating in the school's courtyard that was caught on camera.
She said the video shows her daughter, 16-year-old Ashanni Davis, being beaten by a boy before someone steps in and breaks it up.
"She's still crying and she's, to be quite honest, she doesn't cry much and she is just crying as she's writing her statement and the paper is literally soaked with tears," Fowler said.
Fowler said the video was shot Tuesday morning at Atlantic Coast High School and that the boy punched Davis again and again, as they both fell to the ground.
Other students quickly broke up the fight with one boy lying down on top of the boy Fowler said beat up her daughter after an online argument she had with the boy's sister.
WATCH: Atlantic Coast High School attack caught on video
Fowler said it's unclear whether the boy even attends the school. She also said she believes the school didn't provide her daughter the proper medical attention.
"The school, I would think when I leave my child with Atlantic Coast, I'm trusting that they're gonna uplift her, educate her and take care of her. I leave my child in their hands," Fowler said.
This is not the first time Fowler feels her daughter was treated unfairly.
Fowler said her daughter is gay, and decided to wear what some people said was a more masculine outfit to the school's Homecoming Dance last month. She said that even the school employees chaperoning the event gave her daughter a hard time.
"Certain things happened and I prepared her for that. ‘You are going to be targeted and walk away from situations and not engage anyone because you are going to be singled out and they are going to target you.' And that's absolutely what happened," Fowler said.
News4Jax spoke with Duval County Public Schools spokesman Mark Sherwood who said the incidents are under investigation.