A Cobb County mom said she allowed her 10-year-old son to assault another child at the school bus stop because he was being bullied, Channel 2 Action News reported.
Gabriel Yvette Choctaw of Austell got on the Sanders Elementary School bus on May 15 looking for a particular student, according to her arrest warrant. Choctaw allegedly stayed on the bus after the driver asked her to get off, police said.
“Then, said accused did orchestrate and permit her son, also a student, to assault another student at the bus stop, in the presence of other students, while said accused stood by,” the warrant states.
Choctaw told Channel 2 that she first told school officials her son was being bullied and feared he would be jumped on the school bus. But she was told in a school with 900 students, administrators did not have time to get involved.
“I’m not going to let three students bully him and he feel like he don’t have no one,” Choctaw said. “I’m going to always be there to protect him.”
Choctaw has been charged with disruption of public school. She was not in custody late Thursday.
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