WPLG that she has been repeatedly attacked and bullied because of her LGBTQ identity.Last month, video emerged showing Sanford being attacked while at school.
In the video, filmed by a student, youths surround Sanford while a male student approaches from behind, picks Sanford up, and slams her into the ground.The attack continues once Sanford is on the ground, with the students also yelling anti-gay slurs.“He just stepped on my face, they were kicking and spitting on me and all that was a little clip of the video,” Sanford told WPLG. “They were screaming.
They were saying, ‘We got that gay faggot.’”Sanford said the attacks have taken place since last year and singled out the student who threw her to the ground, saying the youth one day.