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Shocking video shows the moment an elementary school student pummeled a special needs pupil - while their teacher encouraged the violence. 

The furious mother of the seven-year-old victim has launched a lawsuit against George Washington Carver School in Indianapolis over the incident. 

Corrie Horan's lawsuit in Marion County, Indiana, on behalf of her son accuses teacher Julious Johnican of 'orchestrating a reprehensible "fight club" type of discipline within his classroom over a span of three months'. 

She became aware of this after Johnican himself accidentally showed her mobile phone footage of her son, who has ADHD, being beaten by another second-grader, according to the suit. 

The attacker can be heard saying 'don't mess with me' while throwing punches as her son cries on the ground - and their second-grade teacher shouts 'you get him.'

The teacher and school officials have yet to respond to the lawsuit. DailyMail.com has contacted the school, principal and school board for comment on the lawsuit. 

Horan says the fight is only the tip of the iceberg. Her son, known as O.D. in the suit, had been complaining of bullying and abuse in the classroom dating to August 2023. 

'Within the first few weeks of school, O.D. began to come home sad, upset, behaviorally dysregulated, and reporting abuse, bullying, and classroom harassment,' the lawsuit says. 

Outlining Johnican's 'fight club', the suit adds: 'In this horrifying setup, Johnican not only permitted but incited and facilitated other students to engage in acts of violence against seven-year-old O.D.'

It says the problems 'included at least three beatings and various forms of physical harm and bullying both for his own amusement or as a deeply disturbed disciplinary measure.'

'This systemic abuse occurred within the school premises and within O.D.’s classroom, a place where seven-year-old disabled O.D. should have been nurtured and protected, not subjected to repeated and organized violence,' the suit adds. 

The lawsuit stresses Johnican encouraged behavior which went beyond 'mere pushing or shoving', by orchestrating 'physical assaults.' 

'O.D. was thrown to the ground, struck, slapped and hit in the head repeatedly,' the suit says. 

'On two occasions it is reported that he (Johnican) held O.D. while allowing other students to punch, hit, and kick him.'

Johnican also made 'continuous threats' to the boy and subjected him to 'deliberate humiliation,' according to his mother. 

She said it led her child 'developing a profound anxiety specifically related to the school environment.' His grades fell and he began to 'plead' with her to let him skip school. 

Substitute teacher Pardeep Dahliwal was also present in the classroom during the attacks.  

On top of the alleged hostile campaign against her child by Johnican, the pupil was also subjected to discriminatory comments from another, unnamed teacher. 

O.D. told his mother that 'a teacher working with Mr. Johnican said that special needs students were demonically possessed.'

The child said staff told him he was 'bad' and that 'holy water needed to be poured on him' to 'cure him of his evil.'

Horan said she arranged meetings with Johnican about her son's worries, but he 'dismissed' them and 'indicated that O.D. was lying or mentally ill.'