A livid Lengthy Island mother allegedly obtained blended up in an argument between her daughter and a 14-year-old classmate — and wound up bashing the teen within the head with an enormous Stanley water cup till the teenager was bloody, cops mentioned.
Tony Monroe, 35, was busted after allegedly flipping right into a rage when her 15-year-old daughter “started exchanging phrases” with the sufferer outdoors Brentwood Excessive College round 11 a.m. Tuesday, Suffolk County police said in a launch.
That's when Monroe — who claimed she was on the constructing to complain about bullying throughout summer season college — allegedly smashed the youthful teen, leaving her with a gash to the top that required 17 stitches.
“Her mother simply got here in and began beating me with the cup,” the sufferer, recognized as Madison Evans, told WABC's Eyewitness News. “I took my head as a result of I noticed blood dripping. I took my head and I noticed blood throughout my palms.”
Witnesses mentioned Monroe grabbed the container and smashed the sufferer within the head a number of occasions earlier than a faculty safety guard jumped in and tackled the raging mother to the bottom, News12 Long Island said.
That's when cops confirmed up and busted her.
“We're conscious of the incident that occurred yesterday throughout dismissal involving two college students and a mother or father,” Brentwood Superintendent of Faculties Wanda Ortiz-Rivera mentioned in a letter to oldsters.
“The security and well-being of our college students is at all times our highest precedence, and one of these habits is unacceptable and won't be tolerated in our colleges,” she added.
In court docket Wednesday, Monroe confronted a decide as her lawyer claimed it was her daughter who was being bullied — the rationale Monroe was at Brentwood Excessive for a gathering that day.
“As a mother you're presupposed to diffuse the state of affairs and take your daughter away to see what's occurring, as a substitute of attacking a child with a cup,” Tyleen Smith, Evans' cousin, instructed ABC 7.
“She might've died. Something might've occurred to her, extra than simply being hit over the top and having 17 stitches,” Evans' guardian Shameakca Forney, instructed the outlet.
Monroe was launched with out bail however ordered to put on a monitoring ankle bracelet and was issued an order of safety to maintain her away from the battered teen.
