Frank magazine is running photographs in its latest edition that appear to show a confrontation between a student and the principal at a Cherry Brook high school. (CBC)

Photos leaked this week may shed new light on the March confrontation between a principal and a student at a Nova Scotia high school.

The teenage boy's parents, Mike Wagner and Janet Boutilier, said the images vindicate their son and back up his account of a confrontation he had with Ken Fells.

Fells lost his job as principal at Graham Creighton Junior High in Cherry Brook last week, but is still an employee with the Halifax Regional School Board.

The boy involved — who is not being named at the request of his parents because he is now attending a new school — received a concussion, cuts and bruises during the altercation, according to his family.

The student and his parents have been denied access to a security video of the incident, but Frank, a bi-weekly gossip magazine, has published what it says are still images of the encounter taken from a copy of the video.

The photos appear to show the boy pushing Fells in the cafeteria and then Fells putting the 14-year-old in a headlock. The two struggle and fall to the floor, where it appears Fells pins the student to the ground before dragging him down a hall.

After a marathon meeting about the incident last week, the school board rejected a staff report that recommended Fells be fired.

This photos were taken from a security video and appear to show principal Ken Fells getting physical with a teenage boy. (CBC)

The boy's family has hired a lawyer and is pushing for Fells to lose his job. They want to be able to use the video to support their case.

Doug Hadley, spokesman for the Halifax Regional School Board, said the release of the photos has changed nothing.

"Those images were probably accessible by a number of people over the past few months and at this point we don't have any plans to go any further with it. As far as we're concerned, the case has been dealt with," he said.

Hadley was asked to confirm that the images were of the Cherry Brook altercation. "You can see clearly who those individuals are on the tape, so I think from that standpoint, they are probably real images," he said.

'Seeing your kid being choked .... it's horrifying to see your kid like that.'—Janet Boutilier

"I don't know if they've been changed in any way … but they do appear to be images that were captured from one of our schools."

The school board said it has no idea how Frank got a copy of the video.

Wagner and Boutilier said they haven't seen the video and only learned of the photos in Frank when Boutilier saw the magazine in a grocery store.

"Seeing your child being choked and he told me he thought he was going to die that day, you know, it's horrifying to see your kid like that," Boutilier told CBC News Wednesday.

"He said exactly what happened," Wagner added. "Nobody said this didn't happen, except for the school board. They tried to say that everything was fine and that he'll keep his job and everything will go away."

Boutilier said the incident at the Cherry Brook school began in the cafeteria when two girls looked to be on the verge of getting into a fight.

"Everyone turned around with their cameras, thinking there's going to be a cat fight," she said.

Her son also pulled out his cellphone camera, Boutilier said, and Fells demanded the phone. Her son refused to give it to him, leading to the altercation, she said.

Frank has not made the video public and Fells would not comment on it when reached Wednesday.

RCMP investigated the incident and no charges were laid.