THIS HAS TO BE EVERY PARENTS NIGHTMARE:

By Leah Thorsen and Nicholas J.C. Pistor
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
09/15/2009

UPDATED, 11:35 a.m. with police captain backtracking on whether attack was racially motivated.

BELLEVILLE -- A Belleville police spokesman now says an incident where a white student was beaten by teen black assailants on a bus “may not be racially motivated.â€