Mom Arrested for Bullying Bully

An Orange County woman is facing criminal charges after she decided to take on an alleged elementary school bully herself.

Sandra Rivera, 28, is accused of attacking the Eccleston Elementary School student after class one day last week. The 11-year-old Orlando boy told police she came up behind him and choked him. She also is accused of forcing him off his bicycle and into her car so she could drive him home to tell his mother what he’d done, according to Fox News.

His offense, according to WFTV, was allegedly pulling on 9-year-old Trinity Rivera’s backpack and calling her a name.

Sandra Rivera told the station her daughter called her in “fear” on the day of the alleged attack and she decided to take matters into her own hands. She told the station she’d tried for years to get the school to take its bullying situation seriously.

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“I’m not looking for justice to say I was right for what I did, but at the same time, I was taking one for my child,” Rivera told WFTV.

Police, however, say what Rivera did amounts to battery and kidnapping. The incident was caught on camera.

“If you call my daughter a [expletive] again I’m gonna choke you to death,” Rivera, 28, told the boy, the Orlando Sentinel quoted the police report as saying.

Rivera was booked into the Orange County Jail and later released on bond. The kidnapping charge carries a maximum lifetime sentence.

Photo Credit: Sandra Rivera/Orange County Jail