Posted on 05/19/2014 2:24:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Sheriff's deputies arrested a Northern California mother for allegedly grabbing a fifth grader by the throat after her son pointed him out as the student who was bullying her younger daughter. Delia Garcia-Bratcher was booked Saturday into Sonoma County Jail on a felony charge of inflicting injury on a child a day after deputies took her into custody at Olivet Elementary Charter School in Santa Rosa. Christie Smith reports
Sheriff's deputies arrested a Northern California mother for allegedly grabbing a fifth grader by the throat after her son pointed him out as the student who was bullying her younger daughter.
Delia Garcia-Bratcher was booked Saturday into Sonoma County Jail on a felony charge of inflicting injury on a child a day after deputies took her into custody at Olivet Elementary Charter School in Santa Rosa.
"It's terrible when this kind of thing happens," Piner-Olivet Union School District Supt. Jennie Snyder said Monday morning. "Incidents like these are very rare."
Garcia-Bratcher was released on $30,000 bail. Attempts to reach her early Monday were unsuccessful. A number listed for her was disconnected.
Graduation Bomb Threat Over Drop-Out Secret: Cops The Sonoma County District Attorney's Office on Monday said that Garcia-Bratcher did not yet have a scheduled court date.
Snyder said she will work to prevent Garcia-Bratcher from stepping onto the campus again, and that she was not aware of any bullying allegations. Now that she is aware, she said, she will "investigate fully."
The arrest came after a Sonoma County Sheriff's deputy went to the school on Willowside Road following a report of "child abuse."
When the deputy got there, school staff said a child had been "reportedly assaulted by a parent."
Download NBC Bay Area mobile apps Lt. Steve Brown told NBC Bay Area that a child heard the mother say to the 12-year-old boy, "Don't bully my little girl. This is your warning. Next time I'll tell," before allegedly wrapping her fingers around his throat. She had entered campus at lunchtime, the deputy wrote in his report, without signing in.
According to the deputy, Garcia-Bratcher asked her son to identify the child who had been bullying her daughter. Deputies say she allegedly grabbed the student by the throat in front of many other students, including her own son. No adults witnessed the assault, the deputy said. The deputy did not detail what the alleged bullying was about. And later in the day, the sheriff's office issued a statement that "we were unable to find any nexus between the two students and are unable to determine if any bullying ever occurred between the two."
Brown would not say whether Garcia-Bratcher had a criminal history. But he did confirm that her father, Frank Bratcher, died in January after his body was found in the Russian River. He had recently been released from jail, according to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.
The fifth grade boy sustained red marks consistent with being grabbed in the neck, the deputy said. The injuries were immediately photographed by school staff.
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"It's kind of scary," said Mariam Padilla, who has a kindergartener at the school. "To harm another child is unacceptable. No, I don't know the situation, but I don't know what she was thinking."
Amanda Navarro said she didn't know what to make of the news.
Disneyland Jacks Up Ticket Prices "I don't know how you could put your hands on another child," she said. "But bullying is not acceptable."
Overall, Navarro said she believes Olivet is a "very good school" and this appears to be a "random" albeit "shocking" incident.
The school district's website touts "personal integrity," "productive collaboration" and "effective communication" as some of its "cornerstone" qualities.
I was tempted by my daughter’s bully, the only black kid in the school. He knew he could never be held to account because he was black.
So he got away with bullying, even after we repeatedly brought the issue to several teachers and the administration.
Racists.
The mom was mad because the kid jacked up the prices at Disneyland?
How many times did the mother of the bullied child try to get the admin at the school to stop the bullying?
How many times did the admin at the school ignore the mother because the bully was special in some way?
Black privilege.
Should have hired a bigger kid to beat the crap out of him.
I am the grandmother of a boy that was bullied at a Christian School, the principal was a good man with no backbone.
When I picked up my grandson with a red swollen face, the bully had thrown a soccer ball hard as he could, I would have loved to throw that kid down and beat the tar out of him. Some how I managed to stay in my car and drive away. I have regretted it since.
Right now I get so angry thinking about it. My grandson would not tell his dad so it just got worse.
When my son did find out, it was stopped so far as we know.
That was my grandsons last year in that school.
I will defend to the end any parent or family member that fights back.
Everywhere we look there is an insecure bully.
Yeah, I was thinking that’s what older brothers are for.
Apparently only works on Cracka's. Beaner Moms don't play that game.
When I was young, any parent could slap you if you were doing something wrong. Then your folks kicked your butt for embarrassing them in public.
Also, if your folks needed another kids's butt kicked, they got the big brother, cousin, neighbor, etc. to do it.
That's when you burn crosses in their yards. Scare the living hell out of them.
if the mother made a reasonable attempt to get the school administration to stop the bullying and got no help, then a felony charge should be met by jury nullification.
Friend of mine for 35 yrs had a daughter in h.s.blond beutifull..110 lbs honors student invited to white hs. for acedemics one day senior year 350 lb black girl student just in from detroit...argued w her in class....while standing in line waiting to leave the room ....she hit cally in the back of the head w a math book....knocked her out cold.....6 students witnessed on paper that cally did not instigate.....after hosp. cally got 2 wks detention and was told to apologize on paper for some imagined offense...or she would not be allowed back in class....her father worked for the school system as a teacher....tryed to arrange all manner of mediation was denied.....
Cally dropped out....She runs a large dept store here now does very well...she started there as a sales clerk ...at 15 yrs old...Now manages the whole thing...
But she could have been much more...imo...her math scores where best in the schools history...She is their only child....She doesnt lie...Ive known her for 20 yrs...In fact she is like her mother...would avoid ANY conflict if at all poss.doesnt drink....doesnt smoke....doesnt drug....Sad little slice of reality from public school.
oh well
Your grandson’s experience is unfortunately a common experience for good kids.
A few years ago, I posted about a situation where an American born Hispanic/Caucasian girl was being bullied by black and Hispanic female classmates in a city 35 miles from where we live.
The parents complained about the bullying to the school principal, the school super and school board and nothing was done. The girl’s parents had zero political and economic clot.
On our advice, they hired a female private investigator to film the abuse after they dropped her daughter off.
Then, the lawyer they hired showed the school board, super and principal the video.
He said they had two choices to expel the female thugs or to send the bullied girl to a private school. In less than a week, a small school bus came by her home each day and took her 30 miles to the prepaid private school and picked her up at the end of the day to bring her home. Last year she was graduated with honors from that private school and is at good university with a scholarship.
Out here in liberal Californicator land, the child that is bullied by minorities or the rich/elite kids is often the one who has to leave that school even if the kid being bullied is a minority.
The little SOB probably deserved worse like having his throat just ripped out. Somebody at least needs to beat the living spit out of him.
Around here there is a fleet of busses that run all morning and all afternoon and a few during the day. They are all but empty. Then there is the mile long line of cars that take kiddies to school and pick them up. All of this because of the thugs on the busses that can’t be controlled.
Friend of mine for 35 yrs had a daughter in h.s.blond beutifull..white girl 110 lbs honors student.
Invited to white house for acedemics .
One day senior year 350 lb black girl student just in from detroit...argued w her in class....
While standing in line waiting to leave the room ....she hit cally in the back of the head w a math book....knocked her out cold.....
6 students witnessed on paper that cally did not instigate.....
After hosp. cally got 2 wks detention and was told to apologize on paper for some imagined offense...or she would not be allowed back in class....
Her father worked for the school system as a teacher....tryed to arrange all manner of mediation was denied....
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Cally dropped out....She runs a large dept store here now does very well...she started there as a sales clerk ...at 15 yrs old...Now manages the whole thing...
But she could have been much more...imo...
Her math scores where best in the schools history...
She is their only child....
She doesnt lie...
Ive known her for 20 yrs...
In fact she is like her mother...would avoid ANY conflict if at all poss.doesnt drink....doesnt smoke....doesnt drug....
Sad little slice of reality from public school.
oh well
Unfortunately, what happened to your friend’s daughter is the reality in Californicator land.
See my reply #17 in this posting.
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