A 19-year-old Atlanta woman will not join her mother in prison for the assault of a southside teacher.
Sequita Thornton, 19, was sentenced to two years probation Friday, WSB-TV reported. Her mother, Georgia Thornton, had already been sentenced to one year in prison followed by four years probation.
The mother and daughter were charged in the February 2008 attack on Maynard Jackson High School teacher Felecia Williams. Sequita Thornton had asked for a jury trial after her mother plead guilty, according to WSB-TV.
Sequita Thornton was a student in Williams' communications class. The teacher said she previously had met with Sequita's mother to discuss her daughter's poor grades and sporadic attendance. On the day of the attack, Williams said the mother and daughter walked into her classroom and began arguing with her, claiming she had given Sequita an outdated book.
Georgia Thornton grabbed a book off her desk, and Williams tried to grab it back, the teacher said. Then the attack began.
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