An Indianapolis mom allegedly barged onto her son’s middle school bus with her teen daughter and beat the boy’s alleged 14-year-old bully so badly that the child suffered a broken nose.
Latea Hentz, 36, her daughter, 17, and son, 13, were caught on the bus’s security camera and in viral videos taken by students allegedly attacking an 8th-grade student in Warren Township, a suburb of Indianapolis, on March 6, Fox 59 reported, citing court records.
As the incident unfolds, the Warren Township School bus driver can be heard telling Hentz that no parents were permitted on the bus.
However, Hentz allegedly told the driver she was coming on and to call the police as the three of them made their way over to the student.
Her daughter and son “immediately started fighting” the 8th grader, Fox 59 reported.
“Beat his a–, beat his a–,” Hentz screamed as she and her children punched the student in the mob attack.
Hentz and her daughter then allegedly began yelling threats at the other children on the school bus, who were pleading for the trio to stop their attack.
At one point, the 17-year-old allegedly turned to a 10-year-old girl on the bus and asked if “she wants some too,” the IndyStar reported, citing court documents.
Hentz and her children stopped beating the 8th grader as police arrived.
However, on the way out of the bus, she allegedly made an open threat to other students and said, “I’m going to tear this up,” and “I’m tired of you b–ch ass kids.”
She claimed to police that the victim was bullying her son for several weeks and had slapped him the day before the attack.
Hentz claimed that her son’s school was aware of the bullying but had done nothing to stop it.
Police said that the 14-year-old was beaten so severally by the Hentz and her kids that when he was taken to Riley Children’s Hospital for treatment, doctors determined his nose was fractured, and his left eye was bruised and swelled.
He was later interviewed by the Warren Township police’s child abuse department, where he revealed a different account of what happened leading up to and during the March 6 attack.
The victim, who is half-Mexican, told investigators that Hentz’s son had been picking on him and had been making “racist jokes” and making “comments about ICE,” according to court records.
He then claimed that “he had been jumped by a mom and her kids.”
Hentz had initially been charged with misdemeanor battery, disorderly conduct, intimidation, and trespassing following the incident.
However, on Tuesday, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office charged the mother with four felonies: Criminal Confinement, Battery Resulting in Moderate Injury, Intimidation, and Criminal Trespass.
Hentz’s two children are also facing possible criminal charges concerning the fight as officials continue to investigate the incident, according to prosecutors.
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