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HAPPENED TO HER
SON... WAS A HATE
CRIME.
AND TONIGHT... A
LEXINGTON MOTHER
IS GIVING HER 'FIRST'
TELEVISION
INTERVIEW ABOUT
THE CASE.
DENISHA VINEGAR
SAYS HER 14-YEAR-
OLD SON WAS THE
VICTIM OF
RACIALLY-MOTIVATED
HARASSMENT AND
THREATS.. FROM
ANOTHER STUDENT
AT LEXINGTON
CATHOLIC HIGH
SCHOOL.
THAT OTHER
STUDENT NOW FACES
CHARGES.
MONIQUE BLAIR IS AT
THE LIVE DESK.. WITH
A TOP STORY
'EXCLUSIVE.'
MONIQUE?
DENISHA VINEGAR'S
14 YEAR OLD SON IS
NOW AT A NEW
SCHOOL..STARTING
OVER AFTER SHE WAS
FEARFUL OF FOR HIS
SAFETY WHILE HE
ATTENDED A
LEXINGTON CATHOLIC.
"I couldn't send him
back, I just couldn't."
Denisha Vinegar says
the harassment against
her son started last
summer, before his
freshman year at
Lexington Catholic,
when he was at
football camp.
"he saw that my child
was the roommate and
he had made a
comment statement
that all black people
smelled like
."Vinegar says the
student who made that
comment was not the
17-year-old charged
with sending her son
threatening text
messages in February.
Vinegar says she found
those messages,
including a threat to
lynch her son, after he
became very distant at
home.
"He dropped his head
and he looked at me
and he said well i mean
there is nothing you
can do about and thats
what kind of hurt me
and I told him it's not
ok for someone to talk
to you like that."
WKYT received a
statement from
Vinegar's attorney
amos Jones saying he
is now representing a
second African
American... now a
former Lexington
Catholic student who
left the school Tuesday
following a string of
assaults that ended in
his reporting a battery
that took place on
Monday.
We reached out to
Lexington Catholic who
states quote no assault
allegedly occurring on
Monday at Lexington
Catholic was reported
to school officials. In
fact, the school officials
did not learn of this
alleged assault until
Mr. Jones sent a letter
to the school's attorney
midday on Tuesday
April 12, 2016.
VINEGAR TOLD ME
SOME ALLEGATIONS
HAVE BEEN MADE
AGAINST HER SON
SAYING HE INITIATED
THE THREATS. SHE
SAYS AFTER HER SON
WAS REPEATEDLY
TORMENTED, HE DID
STAND UP FOR
HIMSELFBUT SHE
SAYS WHAT HE SAID
WAS NOT
THREATENING OR
RACIALLY
MOTIVATED.AT THE
LIVE DESK, MONIQUE
BLAIR WKYT.
VINEGAR SAYS
ALTHOUGH
LEXINGTON CATHOLIC
DID REDUCE HER
FOUR THOUSAND
DOLLAR TUITION BILL,
THEY HAVE STILL
BILLED HER. SHE SAYS
THE SCHOOL HAS
ALSO NOT RELEASED
HER SON'S
TRANSCRIPTS,
ALTHOUGH THEY
TOLD HER THEY
WOULD.