Indiana woman boards school bus to attack student for bullying her son

An Indianapolis mother identified as Latea Hentz, boarded her son's middle school bus with her teenage daughter and attacked the 14-year-old boy who had allegedly been bullying her son. The attack was severe enough that the boy reportedly sustained a broken nose.

Along with Hentz, her 17-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son were also involved in the attack on an 8th-grade student in Warren Township, a suburb of Indianapolis.

The incident was captured by the bus’s security camera and went viral through videos recorded by other students, according to court records reported by Fox 59.

The Warren Township School bus driver informed Hentz that parents were not allowed on the bus. However, Hentz allegedly insisted she was getting on and told the driver to call the police as she and her children made their way toward the student.

Her daughter and son reportedly began attacking the 8th grader immediately, according to Fox 59.

Hentz and her daughter reportedly started yelling threats at other children on the school bus, who were reportedly begging them to stop their aggressive behavior. However, they stopped beating the 8th grader as police reached.

She claimed to police that the victim was bullying her son for several weeks and had slapped him the day before the attack.

Hentz claimed that her son’s school was aware of the bullying but had done nothing to stop it.

According to the Police, Hentz attacked the 14-year-old in a way that doctors determined his nose got fractured, and his left eye was bruised.

Hentz was originally facing charges of misdemeanor battery, disorderly conduct, intimidation, and trespassing in connection with the incident.

However, on Tuesday, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office upgraded the charges, now including four felonies: Criminal confinement, battery resulting in moderate injury, intimidation, and criminal trespass.