{"id":269024,"date":"2022-05-27T15:30:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T20:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=269024"},"modified":"2022-05-27T15:23:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T20:23:44","slug":"pro-life-student-attacked-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-student-attacked-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Father of pro-life student attacked at New Jersey high school abortion rally speaks out"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The father of a 16-year-old pro-life student at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in New Jersey is speaking out about the attack<\/a> on his daughter by an angry mob of pro-abortion students on campus, simply because she was holding up a pro-life sign.<\/p>\n

Nichole Pagano and her sister, Vanessa, 18, saw the crowd of students holding a pro-abortion rally, and made an impromptu decision to stand for life.\u00a0Nichole wondered if the pro-abortion students even understood what abortion entails. In an interview with Live Action News, the girls’ father, Michael Pagano, said neither of his daughters is an activist, though they believe in the sanctity of human life. The girls decided to bring the sign with them to school to represent the other side of the debate, but neither of them had any idea what was going to happen. When they got to their car, Vanessa remembered the sign and suggested they go over with it; Nichole volunteered to hold it.<\/p>\n

“She didn’t say a word, my daughter,” Pagano said. “She was holding the sign, and she got attacked by all these kids. There were 200 kids there, and eventually, it got bigger and bigger. There was a lot of chaos. Teachers are there, superintendents are there — people were there<\/em>. They knew. They knew about it.”<\/p>\n

The girls were attacked<\/a> both verbally and physically, with Vanessa trying to get the students off of her younger sister.<\/p>\n

“Multiple times, they ripped the sign out of [Nichole’s] hands,” he said. “They had to go back and get it. My daughter just kept going after it. I couldn’t believe she did that; she would not give up. One time, they were standing on a box, and she went up there, and just quietly held the sign. Another girl came up, and then all of a sudden, someone pulled her from behind. She’s athletic, so she landed OK, but it was a chaotic, mob mentality, screaming. At one point, they were chanting, ‘F*** that b***! F*** that b***!’ And there was nobody who was helping.”<\/p>\n