ATLANTA (CBS ATLANTA) -
Sharon is the mother of a 13-year-old girl who attended Young Middle School, where the mother claimed she was bullied by a group of girls.
Sharon said one of those girls would sometimes pretend to be her daughter's friend, and earlier this year lured her to an apartment where her 19-year-old cousin allegedly raped her. It took time for the girl to finally tell her mother.
"She was like, 'Ma, I've been raped,'" Sharon recalled. "I was like, 'Oh my God ...'"
Deanthony Young was charged with the girl's rape and is still in Fulton County Jail.
The mother said her daughter was traumatized after the incident and stopped going to school.
"She became very withdrawn," Sharon admitted. "She missed a lot of days of school."
Sharon has been summoned to court to face charges in her daughter's truancy case. Charges she hopes will be dropped when a judge hears what her daughter has been through.
"Some days she just doesn't even want to get out of bed," Sharon said. "She doesn't want to deal with it."
A spokesman for Atlanta Public Schools said the student's truancy had been happening well before the date of the alleged rape.
The district transferred the girl to another school, MLK Middle School, but Sharon wants her to go elsewhere.
"I don't want her to go to a school like that," Sharon said. "I want her to go to a school where there's a mixed population. As a parent, I feel like I have that right."
APS officials said they hoped the girl would try out her new school and give it a chance.
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Young, Deanthony taken 7-23-2012
Sharon the student's mother
