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NEW: The family of the teen charged with violently attacking Kaylee Gain claims she's the real victim They say she was being "harassed and bullied" Her family describes her as an honor roll student who speaks ‘four languages including Spanish and Korean, plays the violin in the school orchestra —— played on her school’s volleyball team —— and was recently selected for college-level AP classes due to her academic excellence’ More than 510 people have signed a petition urging ‘Chief Juvenile Officer Rick Gaines to Consider Maurnice Declue's Case with Compassion’ The petition says the incident is ‘being used to define her character and incite racial divisions and political strife with the MO AG calling on the courts to charge her as an adult’ Maurnice DeClue, a 15-year-old, is charged with felony assault and detained by St. Louis Family Court, awaiting an April hearing