Mom Charged With Assault For Defending Her Daughter Against Bullies
https://www.auntydebbysblog.com/2016/01/mom-charged-with-assault-for-defending.html
A
mother is facing an assault charge after confronting a bully at her
teenage daughter’s school. Morgan Sellers, 14, has been enduring
bullying by a group of kids at her middle school since last fall. “It’s
been stressful because I never know what name they’re going to call me
each day,”
Morgan told said in a statement “It makes me feel bad about myself, like I’m not good enough.”
Morgan’s
mom, Alisha Morton, 31, says she repeatedly complained about the
bullying to the principal, teachers, and superintendent of Northview
Middle School in Ankeny, Iowa. She was assured that they would take care
of the situation. But nothing changed.
The
bullying got so bad that Morgan told her mom she wanted to die. “For my
child to come home and tell me that she wants to die because this child
is still doing something that I’ve confronted the school and
superintendent about, that kills me inside,” Morton said
Morgan Sellers with her mom, Alisha Morton, who faces assault charges. It was the last straw. On Jan. 11, Morton went with her daughter to the
school to face the student who was bullying Morgan the most — an
eighth-grade boy. During the exchange, another student, a ninth-grade
girl, allegedly threatened Morton. “She said, ‘I’m going to beat your
ass. Get the hell out of here,’” Morton said. “I said, ‘You’re a child;
you’re not involved in this. Sit back down.’
The
mom was charged with assault “by admittedly shoving [the student]
during a verbal altercation,” the assault complaint says, according to
WHO-HD.
In a statement, the Ankeny School District told WHO-HD it “does not comment on the specifics of student discipline matters.”
(Photos: WHO-HD)
