Mom Assaults Middle-Schooler, Claiming Girl Harassed Daughter: Aberdeen Police

ABERDEEN, MD — A mother has been arrested for assaulting a middle school student during a confrontation over accusations the girl bullied the woman's daughter.

According to the Aberdeen Police Department, Kelly Sadik, 41, was arrested for second-degree assault after she trespassed onto school property and assaulted a student at Aberdeen Middle School March 7 shortly after 8 a.m.

Sadik entered the middle school after checking with the office via the outside intercom. But instead of going straight to the office to sign in as a visitor, she instead went to the seventh-grade student area of the school and confronted a student about harassing Sadik's daughter, police reported.

The argument between Sadik and the student escalated into Sadik grabbing the arm of the seventh-grader when she attempted to walk away. According to police, the student suffered a minor injury.

Aberdeen Police Sgt. Jason Neidig told WBAL the girl suffered a "pretty nice-sized red mark and bruise" on her arm.

Aberdeen police officers responded to the school and arrested Sadik. She has been charged with second-degree assault and trespassing.

According to WBAL, a teacher saw the incident and intervened. The seventh-grader's father, Charles Bates, was notified of the incident and spoke with WBAL.

"The biggest concern was how quickly she got into the school, she bypassed the office and then she got a direction location of where my daughter was," Bates said. "She could have had a weapon. She could have had anything. That's the most frightening part about it."

Harford County Public Schools told WBAL they have safety measures in place for visitors, and their staff took action as soon as Sadik broke protocol.

"We vet folks that are coming into our schools. Protocol was followed today by our staff. Unfortunately, we had a parent that decided to break protocol. Fortunately, we had staff members who immediately identified, through their vigilance, and just knowing the building - that there was something that was not right and immediately stepped in to take action," Donoven Brooks, Harford County Public Schools chief of safety and security, said.

Nearly 1,000 comments have been logged about the incident on the Aberdeen Police Department's Facebook page. One Facebook user wrote that "Maybe if parents did their jobs at home to teach these kids not to be so disrespectful, maybe it wouldn't leech out in the schools."

Another read responded to that comment with, "I get your point, but that definitely does not make what this woman did okay in any way ... you don't put your hands on someone else's child."

Yet another reader added, "Maybe she should have put her hands on the parents, too. She told the school, school failed. Period."