HOUSTON, Texas – A Houston mother is demanding answers after she said her 14-year-old daughter was choked and tackled by an assistant principal at Mayde Creek High School.
Adrian Lee Berg has since been charged with assault following the Oct. 3 incident. Katy ISD has confirmed that Berg is no longer employed with the school district.
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KPRC 2 reporter Corley Peel spoke with the student’s mother, Kenyira Hayes, who said she was first notified about the assault when she received a call from the school’s nurse telling her she had to pick up her daughter because of a head injury.
Hayes said when her daughter got in the car, she learned what had transpired.
“She told me that a grown man assaulted her,” Hayes said. “At that point, I turned around and spoke to an officer about it and they asked me if I wanted to press charges, and I said absolutely.”
Hayes said she was shocked when she arrived at the school, and no one had informed her about what happened.
“They said it was under investigation, and they were looking at the cameras, but never mentioned that my daughter had been assaulted by a grown man,” Hayes said.
The incident reportedly started as an argument between Hayes’ daughter and another student, something the mother described as typical “girl gossip.” Despite no physical altercation between the students, Hayes says the assistant principal intervened, using unnecessary force.
Hayes’ daughter suffered a concussion, along with bruises to her head, arm, and collarbone.
“She had a concussion. I mean, the trauma that she’s currently going through, that she went through the following four days, being nauseous, not being able to eat, you know, having to sleep in the dark because her eyes are sensitive to light,” Hayes said.
Despite returning to school days later, Hays said her daughter is still dealing with the consequences.
“She was back at school Monday, but she spent the majority of the day in the nurse’s office. She was better Tuesday. But, I mean, even now, she can’t try out for sports because she has that concussion issue,” Hayes said.
Hayes has not yet seen the surveillance footage but is hoping it will shed more light on what happened.
“I just want to raise awareness. I don’t want him to be able to do this to another child. A lot of times these people get fired, and they just go to other schools, you know? I want people to understand and know who this man is and what he does and how he handles situations,” Hayes said.
Hayes is now left to decide whether to keep her daughter in the school.
“I’m just taking it step by step, trying to see how it goes. I really don’t know,” she said.
Berg was interviewed by law enforcement where he acknowledged attempting to intervene in the altercation but denied using excessive force, claiming the student ran into a structural column during the incident.
He is currently facing charges of injury to a child, and the investigation remains ongoing.