VIDEO UPDATE: Prairie Point 8th grader gives his side

Police and school officials are investigating a fight in a school bathroom Wednesday that sent a Prairie Point eighth grader to the hospital overnight for surgery.

Peyten Sexton, 13, was sitting in a hospital bed Thursday with a broken jaw and fractured cheek bone, on morphine and drinking from a straw. His jaw is wired shut for the next four weeks, and he'll have to see an orthodontist about what is now a pronounced overbite, his mother, Tonja Sexton, said.

Through clenched teeth, Peyten Sexton said the problem started when he bumped into someone in the hallway on Tuesday. A day later, on Wednesday at lunch time, he walked into a school bathroom.

“A bunch of people just crowded into the bathroom. I tried talking to the person who said I bumped into him, but he started swinging,” Sexton said. “I got hit at least four times. After that I didn't remember much.”

He ended up at the nurse's office. His mother arrived there, and took him to St. Luke's Hospital, where police interviewed him later that night. Tonja Sexton asked police to press charges against the other student or students.

Cedar Rapids Police Sgt. Joe Clark said officers are still investigating and assault charges are possible. Steve Doser, spokesman for College Community School District, said the school is investigating as well. The names of the other students involved have not been released.

Tonja Sexton criticized the school district Thursday for not calling police immediately and for not calling an ambulance.

Doser said those are judgment calls, and school officials made what they felt were the right decisions based on available information Wednesday. Officials alerted the school nurse and called Sexton's mother immediately.

“We're finding out if one student was involved, or two or three. We don't just press charges on kids until we have the facts,” Doser said. “We don't even know who started it.”

Peyten Sexton is new to Prairie Point Middle School. His family moved to Cedar Rapids at the beginning of March. He said he knew the student who punched him, but not outside of school.

“I don't think the person's at school today,” Doser said. “They're still fact-finding.

Once that is all collected, we'll hand out the appropriate disciplinary action.”

Tonja Sexton said she doesn't know when her son will return to school.