Two New York students and a bus monitor are being charged in connection to a hate crime after allegedly using "racially motivated language" toward a Black student and assaulting her.  

While on a school bus in Gouverneur, New York, two white students, 10 and 11, reportedly assaulted the Black girl, punching, hitting and pulling out her hair, according to CNN.

The little girl's parents said she came home with a black eye, bruised knee and some of her hair had been pulled out. The parents later filed a complaint on September 10.

A bus monitor, employed by First Student, also faces charges connected to the incident. The employee allegedly witnessed the attack and failed to break it up.

Tiffany Spicer, a 28-year-old white woman, was charged with three counts of endangering the welfare of a child.

Spicer was also ticketed and ordered to appear in court at a later date. 

The two girls were charged with one count of second-degree aggravated harassment. 

The 11-year-old student was also charged with assault and a third-degree hate crime, which is a felony, according to police Sergeant Darren Fairbanks. 

"It's not very often that we charge a hate crime in the village of Gouverneur," Fairbanks told CNN.

First Student was requested to provide more training to bus aides and monitors following the incident, according to Lauren French, the school district superintendent, WRDW reported. 

French said the incident "is probably the most professionally devastating event since I started working at Gouverneur in 1984."

"I firmly believe we are better than this and we have to take a stand," French added.