Sam in the old days that is what parents did. They did not do this! Am I so old that taking a kid back to the store to apologize has gone by the wayside? I never figured the Creepy girl mom was looking for fame out of this. Now that you bring it up I believe she is just trying to make herself “look good”. Well it does not make her look good, she looks like trash. I also don’t think this will teach the kid a good lesson.
Sounds like the “store” pressed charges, though, or at least the local police. This went beyond a handshake agreement (i.e., “apologize”), apparently, so maybe this woman felt little choice. Maybe she didn’t know until the police served them.