A Chicago mom named Corshawnda Hatter was attacked on November 17, 2025, along with her two little kids, earlier this week, and now people are trying to cash in on her pain with fake GoFundMe pages.
By Friday morning, scammers had already set up several phony fundraisers pretending to be for Corshawnda and her family.
Some of those fake GoFundMe pages pulled in close to $14,000 combined before anyone noticed.
Corshawnda had to jump on Facebook and beg people to stop donating to the fakes and report them. She posted the only real GoFundMe link herself and told everyone else to get their money back.
Likewise, she even shared her real CashApp, Zelle, and Chime info so nobody gets tricked again.
The real GoFundMe she finally put up herself has reached over $13,000 for counseling, medical bills, and whatever the kids need to feel safe again.
The last real update said it was over $7,000 from honest people in just a day or two.
Reportedly, on Monday afternoon, November 17, Corshawnda picked up her 9-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter from Orville T. Bright Elementary School on the South Side.
They were just walking a couple of blocks to the store for snacks like they always do, a big group of middle-school kids, 15 to 20 of them, fifth through eighth grade, spotted her son and started screaming ugly names at him.
Above all, this wasn’t the first time; these same kids had been bullying the little boy for months.
Corshawnda told her kids to walk faster and turned around to ask the group why they kept picking on her son.
That’s when everything went crazy as the kids charged. They knocked her son to the ground, slammed his head against the concrete, and started stomping him.
When Corshawnda tried to pull them off, the whole pack turned on her. They punched her, kicked her, dragged her down, and stomped her too.
One 12-year-old boy even yanked her 6-year-old daughter by the hair while the little girl screamed.
Corshawnda kept trying to cover her kids with her body, but there were too many attackers.
Reportedly, both she and her son ended up in the hospital from the chaos.
This whole nightmare was caught on video, which went viral online. The next day, dozens of people showed up outside the school yelling for something to be done.
Corshawnda later wrote on Facebook that she still hears her kids crying “Mommy help me” in her head. They wake up screaming four or five times a night now.
She feels like she failed them because she didn’t fight back harder, but she had just gotten out of the hospital herself for a sickle-cell crisis—her hemoglobin was down to 3, and she’d needed three blood transfusions.
Corshawnda said she didn’t want to put her hands on minors and end up in jail, so she just tried to shield her babies.
She also revealed the bullying has been going on forever.
Those same kids used to live above her (squatters in the building) and did all kinds of awful stuff, like throwing bricks at the windows, started a fire in their own apartment so the water would ruin Corshawnda’s place, burned her mail, flattened the kids’ bikes, ruined her son’s electric scooter, even threw firecrackers through the mail slot.
After management moved the family to a new unit, the harassment followed them there. Monday was the first time it turned into a full-on attack.
Mayor Brandon Johnson said he was “deeply disturbed” and promised more police patrols, help from youth programs, and safe passage for kids around the school.
