Post by Shadow on Jan 6, 2006 14:51:31 GMT -5
Mother Faces Charges For Bus Attack Caught On Video
WFTV
POSTED: 7:08 am EST January 6, 2006
UPDATED: 11:52 am EST January 6, 2006
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- A mother accused of attacking a student on a Brevard County school bus now faces charges. Video cameras on the Sable Elementary school bus captured the entire incident.
The incident took place in mid-October, but first-degree misdemeanor battery charges against Coni Staton were filed Wednesday, one day before the video as released for the first time.
State attorneys said there's indisputable evidence the woman in the video broke the law. The video shows Coni Staton putting her arms and hands on a 6-year-old's neck. Staton is a foster mother who told deputies her child was being taunted by the kids on the school bus, including Trevina Crawford's son, Antonio.
"I don't even touch my son like that, so what gives her the God-given right to put her hands on my baby?" Crawford questioned.
Crawford was outraged when she saw Staton push her son back into his seat after Staton told investigators her foster daughter, in the back of the bus, was too afraid to get off.
On the video, Staton then appears to come forward and, to clear the way, takes the 6-year-old boy by the back of the neck and then puts her arm around it as she wrestles him into his bus seat.
WFTV
POSTED: 7:08 am EST January 6, 2006
UPDATED: 11:52 am EST January 6, 2006
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- A mother accused of attacking a student on a Brevard County school bus now faces charges. Video cameras on the Sable Elementary school bus captured the entire incident.
The incident took place in mid-October, but first-degree misdemeanor battery charges against Coni Staton were filed Wednesday, one day before the video as released for the first time.
State attorneys said there's indisputable evidence the woman in the video broke the law. The video shows Coni Staton putting her arms and hands on a 6-year-old's neck. Staton is a foster mother who told deputies her child was being taunted by the kids on the school bus, including Trevina Crawford's son, Antonio.
"I don't even touch my son like that, so what gives her the God-given right to put her hands on my baby?" Crawford questioned.
Crawford was outraged when she saw Staton push her son back into his seat after Staton told investigators her foster daughter, in the back of the bus, was too afraid to get off.
On the video, Staton then appears to come forward and, to clear the way, takes the 6-year-old boy by the back of the neck and then puts her arm around it as she wrestles him into his bus seat.