The Indianapolis mom is said to have barged her son's middle school bus with her teenage daughter.
36-year-old Latea Hentz, 17-year-old daughter, son, 13-year-old, got caught up in a bus security camera and a viral video filmed by an attacked student Eighth Grade Students from Warren Township, a suburb of Indianapolis, March 6th Fox 59 Reported citing court records.
As the incident unfolds, the driver of the Warrentownship School bus can hear him tell Hentz that his parents are not allowed on the bus.
However, Hentz reportedly told the driver when she came and called the police because the three of them headed to the students.
Her daughter and son “started the fight right away” in the eighth grade, Fox59 reported.
“Battle him and beat his a-,” exclaimed Hentz as she and her children punched the students in the mob attack.
Hentz and her daughter are said to have since started screaming threats at other children on the school bus.
At one point, the 17-year-old said he looked at the 10-year-old on the bus and asked if he “wanted her too.” Indystar It was reported citing court documents.
Hentz and her children stopped beating the 8th graders when police arrive.
But on the way out of the bus, she poses an open threat to other students, saying, “I'm going to tear this off,” and “I'm tired of your B-Ch Ass kid.”
She claimed to police that the victim had been bullying her son for several weeks and slapped him the day before the attack.
Hentz claimed that his son's school knew about bullying but did nothing to stop it.
Police said the 14-year-old was beaten so many years by Hentz and her children that when he was taken to Riley Children's Hospital for treatment, doctors determined that his nose had broken, his left eye was damaged and swollen.
He was later interviewed by the Warrentownship Police Department's Child Abuse Division to reveal what happened during the March 6 attack.
The victim was half Mexican and told investigators that Hentz's son had chosen him, making “racist jokes” and “comments on the ice.”
He then claimed that “he was jumping up to mom and her kids.”
Hentz was initially charged with misdemeanor battery, disorderly conduct, intimidation and trespassing after the incident.
However, on Tuesday, the Marion County Prosecutor's Office charged his mother with four felony charges: criminal confinement, moderate injuries, threats, criminal confinement that caused criminal trespass and battery.
Prosecutors say that as officials continue to investigate the case, two Hentz children are also facing the possibility of criminal charges regarding the fight.
