Pompano Beach Mom Caught On Camera Slapping Child On School Bus
POMPANO BEACH (CBS4) -It's the slap heard all over South Florida. A back handed swipe, just inches from a young boy's face that landed a Pompano Beach mom in jail on felony charges.
The incident, caught on a school bus camera back on February 23rd, shows Toccara Daniels, 23, walking onto a school bus, apparently ignoring the driver's warning to stay off.
She shouts out, "who slapped my child?' Then goes up to a 7 year old boy, swings her hand backward and knocks the boy's hand out of his mouth. The woman then leaves the bus, shouting an obscenity at the camera.
That was all the evidence police needed to arrest Daniels and charge her with burglary, battery and abuse of a child.
Neighbors who know her are shocked. They say Daniels is not that type of person.
"She should have gone to the school board or she could have had a conference with the child's parent. There are certain ways you can handle this but I don't think it's the right way," said neighbor Eddie Arrington.
Daniels was apparently furious that the boy had allegedly hit her six year old daughter and she took matters into her own hands..
Even judge John Hurley sympathizes with the mother.
In a bond hearing this afternoon, he said he was bullied in school and that his dad went after the kid that hit him, but times have changed and today the judge ordered the mom held with out bond, like any other suspect with similar charges.
Daniels' daughter is now staying with her mother's grandmother, about a half mile from the elementary school where both kids attend. The grandmother said, "She's a good mother and things happen. She didn't mean any harm. She didn't hurt the child."
