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A private Christian school in Kentucky expelled a student last week after officials found a picture of her posing with a rainbow birthday cake.

Kayla Kenney, a freshman at Whitefield Academy in Louisville, went to a Texas Roadhouse restaurant to celebrate her 15th birthday in late December.

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“She was happy, she looked beautiful,” mom Kimberly Alford told WCJB. “You know, of course as a mom, I took her picture of her blowing out her candles and I posted that on my Facebook page.”

Alford told the Courier Journal that someone shared the photo of her daughter with Whitefield Academy officials and days later, she received an email from the head of the school, Bruce Jacobson.

“It was an email expelling Kayla from Whitefield immediately due to a post on social media,” Alford said. “I feel judged, she feels judged, just very devastating for us.”