Since this article was first reported, the girl and her family have said the allegations are false. Read more about their apology here.

(CNN) A 12-year-old African-American girl says three of her white male classmates pinned her down and cut several of her dreadlocks.

The girl, Amari Allen, tells CNN that three white boys at Immanuel Christian School in Springfield, Virginia, pinned her on Monday to a playground slide.

They held her hands behind her back, Amari said, covered her mouth and clipped her hair, calling it "ugly" and "nappy."

"They were saying that I don't deserve to live, that I shouldn't have been born," she said.

She said one of the boys had scissors, and all three are in her class.

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