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Mom ran over girl after she said kids were bullied, AZ cops say. She’s sentenced
By Jennifer Rodriguez
June 15, 2025 1:20 PM
An Arizona woman was sentenced to prison after officials said she ran over a girl at a park when she thought her kids were being bullied.
The 31-year-old woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison, according to a June 14 news release from the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office.
McClatchy News is not naming the woman to protect the identity of the children.
Her attorney information was not immediately available.
According to prosecutors, in February 2024, the woman’s children were at a park in Peoria and were fighting with each other. Other children at the park were “egging them on and recording the altercation,” prosecutors said.
The woman arrived at the park to pick up her kids and while she was walking back to her truck, a boy called her a name, according to prosecutors. The woman went over to the boy and pulled him by his hair, then a second boy called her a name and she chased him with a stick, prosecutors said.
The woman got in her truck with her kids and the second boy stood behind it and began dancing and mocking her, prosecutors said. The boy then moved and went to stand by his sister.
That’s when the woman “revved her engine” and drove toward the brother and sister, prosecutors said. The boy jumped out of the way, but the woman ran over the 12-year-old girl’s leg, according to prosecutors.
The woman kept driving through the park, where other kids had to run out the way to get out of her path, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said the woman went home, where she was arrested.
She told detectives that it all started because she saw kids at the park “throwing wood chips at three of her kids and believed one of them punched her 10-year-old daughter,” according to KTVK.
“(She) continued by stating her children are being bullied at school and have had issues with this group of kids before and reported it to the school and police but nothing has been done,” court documents said, according to KSAZ. “(She) thought the bullying was being continued at the park when she drove up and saw her daughter get hit by one of the other juveniles.”
She pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated assault, prosecutors said.
“This could have been a much more tragic situation; thankfully the worst injury in this was a sprained ankle and some bad scrapes and bruises,” Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell said. “Even when angry or frustrated, it’s up to adults to act like adults. It is never okay to take our rage out on a kid.”
Peoria is about a 15-mile drive northwest from Phoenix.
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