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DELTA, Colo. — A Colorado mother is extremely upset after her 6th grade daughter experienced what she calls a disturbing act of bullying.

The student, who attends middle school in the tiny town of Delta, discovered the face of a dead pig in her backpack.

“I was crying and screaming,” said 6th grader Shelby Cady.

At first Shelby said she thought one of her friends was playing a trick on her.

However, it was not her friend, but rather a male classmate who put it in her backpack.

Shelby said she believes she was directly targeted by the disturbing act. She was born with a disability that slows her growth and said she has been bullied ever since she moved to Delta from Arkansas last year.

“They call me “Arkan-sass,” and they call me “polar bear killer” cause I wore this really fluffy coat,” Shelby said.

The pig’s face was taken from a baby pig that was being used for a 7th grade dissection class.

Shelby’s mother, Robin Earnest, asked the principal who is accountable for the items being returned.

She said the school hasn’t returned her calls and acted like it wasn’t a big deal, but to her and her daughter, who she says cried for hours, it is.

“Just because they’re middle schoolers and they do things like this, it’s not okay, and for the principal to tell me that the boy was being a stinker? That was her exact words,” Earnest said.

The boy was given in-school suspension for two days and had to write an apology letter, but Shelby said the letter was only three sentences, and the boy still calls her names.

“I just think that he wrote it to go back to class so he wouldn’t have to deal with the whole thing,” Shelby said.

The Delta County School District superintendent refused an on-camera interview.

He said he doesn’t believe the act was malicious and said the two students didn’t know each other.

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