She was mortified. Humiliation still sets in as she walks into school each day.

“It’s horrific. I can’t describe how awful it is going to school after that,” said Hannah Combs, a freshman at Harker Heights High School.

What she describes as a nightmare began on September 14.

Before the first bell rang, Hannah was hanging out with a group of friends when she saw two other students playing with super glue. “I should have paid attention more. I guess that was my first mistake,” she said.

She says what happened next was painful. One of the boys put super glue on her head.”My head immediately lit up on fire,” she said. Hannah was picked up from school and taken to urgent care where they spent half an hour trying to remove the glue from her scalp.

Not only did she have chemical burns with hair falling out, but she had to shave her head where the glue had matted her hair.

“My hair was the one thing I liked about myself,” she said with tears in her eyes. “It was like losing part of you. I look at myself in the mirror every day, and I feel ugly. I get reminded of what happened to me every day.”

Still nursing her physical and emotional wounds, Hannah returned to class. “She called me hysterical. The kid was still in her class and able to walk around freely at school,” said Hannah’s father Christian Grimmer.

The boy had received three days of ISS, in school suspension. According to the boy’s mother, after a meeting where school officials looked at his school record, they gave him 45 days of probation rather than sending him to an alternative school. One mishap and he would be transferred. They also switched the classes and lunch period the two shared.

“My daughter should not be punished from me having to uproot her from her life because of what he did,” said her dad. “All I want to know is that he no longer is in that school. He gave up that right to go the Harker Heights High School when he assaulted my daughter.”

Grimmer says assault charges have been filed against the boy through KISD Police. He also wants the student code of conduct changed to better protect the students in cases of assaults. He says not once has the superintendent personally responded to his messages or calls.The other side:

There are always two sides to the story, and the boy and his mother are painting a very different picture.

Both wished to have their names withheld because harsh backlash and threats have been made on social media after a post by Hannah’s mother on the incident went viral.

“He’s not denying what he did, and he knows he is wrong,” said his mother. “But because they are seeking revenge it has gotten out of hand. Now people are retaliating.”

The 14-year-old boy says he and another student were “horse playing around” with the super glue. At one point he acted as if he was going to put the glue on Hannah, and he says she cussed at him.

The second time he says he put the glue on his hand, and he hovered it above her head jokingly. “She got scared and she moved. It skimmed the back of her head,” he said.

He says he was immediately put in ISS, and did not find out until later Hannah had to go to the doctor and have her head shaved. “I started… I don’t really cry, but I just went into tears,” he said. “I realized at that moment what I had done.”

The boy and his mother agree he needed to be punished, but she says enough is enough. On Monday she claims the assistant principal called her saying it would be better if her son did not come to school because it was not safe.

“He did something wrong, yes, but he is a kid and these are adults talking about bashing his brains out or getting a baseball bat and beating him so bad that he’s hanging by a thread,” she said.

Because of the Facebook posts and other students approaching her son at school, she also filed a complaint with KISD Police. She says the administration is currently discussing options of transferring her son to another school for safety reasons.

After our interview with the mother, we again contacted Hannah’s family. They stand by their statements that the boy put the glue in her hair intentionally. Hannah’s mother also tells us she would never condone any violence or threats made against the boy, and that every student deserves a safe learning environment.

The school district is not allowed to release any information when it pertains to individual students or disciplinary actions taken against them.

They did say that they are taking this incident very seriously and are taking steps to ensure the safety students.