Leander Mom Charged After Egging On Her Three Daughters To Fight Other Kids

LEANDER, TX -- Police accuse a woman of urging her daughters on to engage in a fight with other children after students disembarked from a Leander ISD school bus on Wednesday, according to a published report.

The Austin American-Statesman reported that Katrice Stephens, 34, was charged with injury to a child by omission, which is a state jail felony punishable by up to two years in jail.

According to an arrest affidavit, the incident occurred at 400 E. Cypress Creek Rd., where children were arguing after getting off the bus. Witnesses told police Stephens allegedly encouraged her three daughters -- ages 16, 11 and 9 -- to participate in the fracas with chants of "That's right, hit her, hit her," the Statesman reports the affidavit as reading.

One of her daughters received scratches as a result of her participation in the fight, the newspaper noted. Stephens now stands accused of having "...neglected her legal duty to act as their legal guardian – parent/mother by watching and encouraging the fight meanwhile her children were getting hurt and in harms way,” the affidavit reads, as reported in the paper.

The affidavit noted that a 72-year-old relative of another injured girl who was not Stephens’ daughter stopped the argument by pulling the children apart, the Statesman reported.

As of Wednesday, Stephens was being held in the Williamson County Jail.

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