COLUMBUS, Ga. – A 13-year-old Georgia student is scheduled to have his leg amputated today as the result of being repeatedly slammed to the ground by his teacher then denied medical treatment afterwards, his attorney alleges.

Attorney Renee Tucker told the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer the student was at an alternative school in the Muscogee County School District on Sept. 12 when he attempted to leave the classroom to call his mother, and a teacher intervened.

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Tucker claims the teacher slammed him to the floor to prevent him from leaving the classroom, then repeated the assault when the student again attempted to leave. Tucker contends assistant principal Eddie Powell witnessed the incident, and a school resource officer witnessed the student limping afterwards, according to the news site.

School officials reportedly considered calling an ambulance for the student, but decided against it, carried him to a school bus, and sent him home without alerting his mother, Tucker said.

“They placed an injured student on the school bus” despite the fact that the boy complained about his leg being “numb,” she said. “We don’t know the extent that the injuries were worsened by the failure to render aid and certainly by picking him up and seating him on the school bus. Then they had him ride in that same school bus home without any support or stabilization of that leg.”

Tucker claims school officials have video footage of the incident and she’s filed an open records request for a copy, as well as copies of the district’s teacher training records, personnel records for the assistant principal, policies for restraining students and procedures for helping injured students, the Ledger-Enquirer reports.

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The student is currently at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, which confirmed the boy is a patient but would not release any other information, The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

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District officials refused to discuss the details of the incident, and instead issued a statement to deflect blame onto a district contractor.

“We extend our thoughts and prayers to our student who is undergoing medical treatment and to his family,” spokeswoman Valerie Fuller wrote to the ACJ. “We are committed to conducting a thorough review of the alleged incident at the AIM/Edgewood Student Services Center to determine all the facts.

“The person involved in the alleged incident … is not an employee of the Muscogee County School District,” the statement continued. “Bryant Mosley was provided by Mentoring and Behavioral Services, a contract service provider, to the Muscogee County School District. Mr. Mosley is not presently providing services to the Muscogee County School District.”

The statement did not divulge whether Mosley is banned from teaching in the district again, or whether he’s simply suspended.

The district statement went on to justify Mosley’s alleged actions.

“It is our understanding that there were issues concerning the safety of the child and others in the room, which called for the use of restraint per state guidance,” the statement read. “Physical restraint is allowed in Georgia public schools and educational programs in those situations in which the student is an immediate danger to himself or others and the student is not responsive to less intensive behavioral interventions including verbal directives or other de-escalation techniques.”