Woman says her son was choked with a jump rope at school

FAIRFIELD, Calif. (KOVR) - A woman alleged her son was choked while at a school in Fairfield, California.

“The principal said she found out it was a jump rope that was tied around my son’s neck,” the boy’s mother Jessica Tyo, said.

Daniel is 5 years old. Due to his autism, he has a harder time communicating with his mother.

When he came home from school last Tuesday with marks on his neck, Tyo was distraught.

“If you can’t protect them at the school, why are we giving you our children for eight hours a day?” Tyo asked.

It happened at Fairview Elementary during an afterschool program.

Tyo said an older student wrapped the rope multiple times around her son’s neck in the school hallway.

“It’s anger that I could have lost my son’s life,” Tyo described. “Would they be getting away with murder today?”

The afterschool program, called “Right at School,” sent out an email to parents last week. It said there was an incident between students and it’s being investigated.

“It’s been about 10 days and I still have no answers. Nobody has called me,” Tyo claimed.

A spokesperson for Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District said in a statement they “are addressing the situation with the utmost seriousness.”

The response is not enough to comfort parents like Tyo, or her friend Samantha Siders.

“As of right now, all of my kids are out,” Siders said.

According to Siders, her children are no longer attending the afterschool program.

“What if my son was to go here next year, the one that has a speech delay? He actually can’t talk at all,” Siders said. “If this happens to him, we would have no information. "

Tyo went a step further and pulled her son from the school entirely. She said the district needs to do better.

“There’s no protection. There was no safety concern for my son,” Tyo added. “If this child got away with it the first time, what if it happens again?”

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