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Kaylee Gain's high school is refusing to hand over records to Attorney General after he said he wants to charge her attacker as an adult

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Kaylee Gain's high school has refused to hand over records to the Missouri Attorney General after he said that wanted to charge her alleged attacker as an adult following a vicious school fight that left her fighting for her life. 

It is just the latest in a heated back-and-forth between prosecutors and local school district officials, who say they are the victims of intimidation tactics.  

In an interview on Fox News, right wing Attorney General Andrew Bailey spoke to host Laura Ingraham and claimed that the brutality was a result of an obsession with woke DEI policies and the soft-touch approach to justice under former St. Louis DA Kim Gardner and current Rep Cori Bush, a hardline progressive Democrat

Gain, 16, was left in a coma for two weeks after the beating near Hazelwood East High School in St Louis on March 8, which saw a teen girl beating her head repeatedly into concrete. 

After days of silence from the Hazelwood School District, a spokesperson claimed that Bailey's investigation was 'based on lies' in an email obtained by Fox News

In response, Bailey said that school district has made 'egregious errors' about the incident and cited Chapter 610, which requires a public governmental body to turn over records and provide a letter that details why requested documents have not been shared. 

Kaylee Gain's high school has refused to hand over records to the Missouri Attorney General after a vicious school fight left her fighting for her life

Andrew Bailey said that school district has made 'egregious errors' about the incident and cited Chapter 610, which requires a public governmental body to provide a letter that details why requested documents have not been shared

'Instead of directing your ire at a date reference or making ad-hominem attacks, you should follow Missouri law and do so immediately,' Bailey said. 

In an email written by Cindy Reeds Ownsby, an attorney for the school district, she said:  'It is disappointing to have an attorney general that intentionally disrespects public school district administrators and elected officials by sending error-filled correspondence to intimidate and threaten their leadership.' 

She added that the fight did not happen 'during the middle of the school day,' as Bailey has argued that school resource officers 'would have been on the scene' that occurred after hours, 'one-half mile from school property.' 

He added that the district's most shocking error was about the 'unsupported allegations that race was a factor in the incident.' 

Ownsby told Bailey that the requested records would be handed over by April 15 and acknowledged the Sunshine Law.

The state law requires public body records to be open to the public, and that a request cannot be ignored or avoided by the other party. 

The Attorney General said that the investigation is set to determine whether the school district violated the state's Human Rights Act. 

Cindy Reeds Ownsby, an attorney for the school district, said that the fight did not take place during the school day, as Bailey argued that it occurred just 'one-half mile from school property' 

The act 'guarantees every Missouri residents the right to be free from discrimination and the right to full enjoyment of places of public accommodation.' 

It is not yet clear what started the fight, but Bailey accused Gain's school of 'promoting racial divisiveness' and 'pushing a radical social agenda' at the expense of proper discipline. 

Gain is currently fighting for her life in a local hospital where she is being treated for brain bleeding and swelling.

She suffered a skull fracture and frontal lobe damage during the brawl that was caught on camera near her high school. 

A GoFundMe set up to help her family deal with medical costs has so far amassed more than $40,000 with donations pouring in from all over the world.

In an update on March 22, her father said that Gain is breathing on her own and 'remains stable.'  

Video of the incident circulated on social media and showed another girl bashing the teen's head into the concrete after throwing multiple punches and sending her careening to the ground.

Gain appeared to begin to have a seizure as groups of other teens brawled just feet away.

The Attorney General called out Rep Cori Bush (left) for supporting defunding police and former St. Louis AG Kim Gardner over her lax approach to prosecution

Gain suffered a skull fracture and frontal lobe damage during the brawl that was caught on camera near her high school

Police found the girl suffering from a serious head injury near the intersection of Norgate Drive and Claudine Drive, roughly a five-minute walk from the high school campus.

A 15-year-old girl was arrested and charged with assault. Her identity has not been released as she is a minor. 

It was revealed that the day before the fight, Gain was suspended from school for fighting a different girl, who was friends with the teen now charged in the incident, as reported by The New York Post.

Gain and the girl, who remains in juvenile detention, were apparently members of warring friend groups in their high school. 

The accused girl's family previously told DailyMail.com that she is the real victim who was 'harassed and bullied' before the viral incident and have hit back at calls to charge the student as an adult.

John O'Sullivan, Director of Communications with St. Louis County Courts, told KSDK it is too soon to determine if the suspect will be tried as an adult.

He says a court hearing is expected to be held in the next few weeks.

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