South Elgin Boy, 12, Recovering After Being Severely Injured In School Hallway Attack

• UPDATE: Boy Badly Beaten in Middle School Attack is Back Home
  

A 12-year-old South Elgin boy who was severely injured when he bumped into a classmate at school on Friday and was “slammed into the ground” is recovering at a suburban hospital.

Henry Sembdner suffered brain and skull injuries following the Feb. 3 attack and spent much of the weekend in an induced coma, the Daily Herald reports.

“They just removed the intubation! And guess what he said, ‘I'm hungry,’” Henry’s mother, Karen DeWilde Sembdner, wrote on the family’s CaringBridge page Sunday.

Henry remained in the Intensive Care Unit overnight, according to Sembdner.

Henry was walking down the hall at his school at Kenyon Woods Middle School when he was severely beaten by another student, according to the Daily Herald. The student accused of beating Sembdner was taken into custody following the attack, school officials said. Social workers were expected to be on hand at the school to assist students and provide any additional support.

A prayer vigil, organized by a parent at Kenyon Woods, was held over the weekend at Fox Meadow Park in South Elgin.

"We always try to have each other's backs. We try to parent everybody's kids. Everybody comes together. There is a lot of faith in this community," organizer Nicole Altman, who did not know the boy, told ABC 7 Chicago.

About 200 people attended the vigil, according to the Daily Herald.

Two GoFundMe pages have been set up to help pay for medical expenses the local family has been slammed with following the “senseless act of violence.” Combined, the two online fundraising sites had raised more than $23,000 as of Monday morning.

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