8 Year Old Biracial Child Hung From A Tree

A  grandmother in America is shaken after learning what happened to her 8 year old grandson.

Lorrie Slattery found out a rope was wrapped around her grandson’s neck before he was allegedly pushed off of a table, leaving him hanging and swinging around from a tree.

Slattery explained that her biracial grandson was playing in a garden when a group of white teens began throwing sticks and rocks at his legs. They were hurling racial slurs at him before the rope from a tire swing ended up wrapped around his neck.

The grandmother said 

“The [teenagers] said, ‘Look at this,’ supposedly putting the rope around their necks. One boy said to [Slattery’s grandson], ‘Let’s do this,’ and then pushed him off the picnic table and hung him.”

There were no adults around when the frightening moment took place, so it is not clear how the rope was placed on his neck.

The bloodied child was flown to hospital for the injuries he suffered from the hanging.

His grandmother said she was told by an interviewer specializing in child abuse that he had swung back and forth three times before he was able to free himself.

Police are investigating the incident.

The 8-year-old boy was treated and released for the cuts on his neck. He escaped internal injuries from being hung from the rope, for which his family is grateful.

Slattery said: “I think he had a guardian angel.”