Family of Girl, 16, Gravely Injured in Teen Fight Is ‘Livid’ After Attacker’s Mom Claims Her Daughter Is ‘Not a Bully’

The girls’ school is accusing Missouri’s attorney general of ‘racial bias’ for launching an investigation into whether DEI policies created the conditions that caused the fight and violated the white victim’s civil rights.

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Kaylee Gain, age 16, is walking again after she underwent a brutal beating near her St. Louis high school at the hands of a schoolmate, Maurnice DeClue. Facebook

The family of Kaylee Gain, the 16-year-old Missouri girl who was gravely injured in a fight earlier this month with another teen girl, is “livid” and expressing outrage after the family of her attacker, Maurnice Declue, 15, defended Maurnice as an honor roll student in the school choir.

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