Pfeiffer-Burleigh Elementary School

Enrollment 690
White (%) 31.2
Black (%) 50.3
Hispanic (%) 17.0
Asian 1.3
Indian 0.3
Economically Disadvantaged (%) 94.9

This explains alot.
ERIE, Pa. — Two girls, ages 10 and 11, were arrested after police said they dragged another young girl off the monkey bars at a school playground and stomped on her head and legs, sending her to the hospital with a broken hip.

“They started stomping on my head and legs,” the victim, 10-year-old Rikki Triana, told the Erie Times-News from her bed at Hamot Medical Center. “I couldn’t do anything.”

Rikki had surgery Friday and has three pins inserted into her right hip to keep the bones together. She will likely need more surgery and possibly a hip replacement at some point because she is young and still growing, said her mother, Lisa Triana.

The girls were being held in a juvenile facility until they could be formally charged at a detention hearing today.

Police were not releasing the girls’ names because they are juveniles.

“I don’t ever remember having a case where kids this young did so much damage,” police Lt. Dan Spizarny said.

Rikki said the girls splashed water on her 8-year-old sister while they were playing in an elementary school playground at around 7 p.m. Thursday. When Rikki told the girls to stop, they splashed water on her, pulled her off the monkey bars and attacked, she said.

When some adults approached, the girls retreated and the victim’s mother arrived at the scene.

“Mommy, I’m hurt,” Lisa Triana remembers her daughter saying as she went into shock.

Rikki will be moved to Erie Shriners Hospital for Children, where she’ll spend at least a week in therapy.

Detectives told her that the parents of one of the accused girls wanted to apologize.

“I actually feel bad for the other kids’ parents,” Lisa Triana said. “It’s a lot to take in — getting a knock on your door and being told that your kid has brutally beat up another kid.”

Erie County District Attorney Brad Foulk said he doesn’t know what to make of the attack.

“I’ve not seen anything of this magnitude allegedly happening before,” Mr. Foulk said. “We’ve seen cases of bullying, but if these allegations are true, it goes way beyond anything I’ve ever seen. It’s very, very, very troubling.”