A fight on a Floyd County school bus ends up on the popular video sharing website, YouTube.
The cell phone video, posted April 28, shows 13 year old Matthew Bailey being punched repeatedly by another student. Matthew is a 7th grader at Floyd Elementary School.
"That's very embarrassing to me because it's showing me in a weakened state.", says Matthew. "Everybody was calling saying I got my butt kicked on YouTube."
"There's probably millions of parents out there that don't know.", says Matthew's mother Ruth Bailey.
Ruth notified school administrators that the video was online. Schools Superintendent Terry Arbogast tells us he's seen the video but won't say if any action has been taken. Transportation director Michael Carr tells us it happened on bus number 13. He would not confirm the bus driver's name. Carr says the bus does not have a camera.
YouTube removed the video after it was flagged by Ruth. She thinks the site should have stopped it.
"Screen 'em before they let them download them and if it is violent acts, don't put them on there.", says Ruth.
Floyd County Sheriff Shannon Zeman hadn't heard about the fight or video until we called him. Zeman says it was not reported to the school resource officer and that the family has not filed a criminal complaint.
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