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Mom Arrested After Breaking “Several Bones” Of Daughter’s Teacher In Front Of 25 Children
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Mom Arrested After Breaking “Several Bones” Of Daughter’s Teacher In Front Of 25 Children

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Don’t poke the mama bear unless you want to end up with several broken bones. An American mother violently assaulted her daughter’s teacher in front of horrified students, resulting in severe injuries and criminal charges.

31-year-old Lynzina Sutton, from Syracuse, New York, USA, burst into her daughter’s classroom and repeatedly punched her teacher in the face, breaking several bones as at least 25 frightened children looked on, Onondaga District Attorney (DA) Bill Fitzpatrick said during a press conference about the incident on Tuesday (February 20).

“These are injuries you don’t often see in a boxing match,” the DA admitted.

Lynzina arrived at Lincoln Middle School, located in Syracuse, on Friday (February 16) with her mother, Roxanne Thompkins. Both women reportedly attempted to make their way past security.

The day prior, Lynzina’s daughter told her teacher, “My mom will handle this” after she was disciplined for allegedly lying about her whereabouts during the school day, The New York Post reported.

31-year-old Lynzina Sutton, from Syracuse, New York, USA, violently assaulted her daughter’s teacher in front of horrified students

Image credits: CNY Central

Despite the targeted teacher filing an official complaint with the school that afternoon, preventing grandmother Roxanne from entering the premises, Lynzina was able to sneak in after she had her hood pulled over her head, allowing her to blend in with other kids, according to Localsyr.com.

Lynzina went on to her daughter’s classroom before violently attacking the female teacher, punching her repeatedly, for the whole classroom of traumatized pupils to witness.

The victim, who has not been named but who has been described as a “dedicated” veteran educator, suffered a concussion and several broken bones in her face, officials said, as per The Post.

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School District’s Superintendent Anthony Davis said in a press conference: “Students, they shouldn’t have to worry about this”

Image credits: CNY Central

DA Fitzpatrick said: “She’s going to have some long-term issues.

“I know her nasal passages were severely affected by this.”

The out-of-control mother managed somehow to successfully leave the school after beating the teacher up, but she was later arrested and charged with burglary and assault, The Post reported.

Consequently, Syracuse City School District’s Superintendent Anthony Davis, DA Fitzpatrick, and Syracuse Police Chief Joe Cecile held a joint press conference on Tuesday, where the superintendent said: “When people are dedicating their lives to educating our students, they shouldn’t have to worry about this.”

“I apologize for that, and I hope she recovers,” Roxanne Thompkins, Lynzina’s mom, said

Image credits: CNY Central

Moreover, Anthony made it clear to the community who he held accountable for this attack.

As reported by CNYCentral, the superintendent said: “I don’t think the district should be the one in question here. 

“It’s what [we are] doing in our community [so] that we can work together and these types of things don’t happen. 

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“When I look at some of the headlines, it’s like ‘district did this, district did that, district didn’t do this,’ but that’s not fair.”

You can read an official statement about the incident shared by Syracuse’s Teachers Association below:

Image credits: CNY Central

Meanwhile, Police Chief Cecile said: “I think the sole responsibility of this incident lies with the suspect who violated not only the law but school protocol and the sanctity of the schools, where students should be allowed to come have a safe haven and be protected both from other students and adults, including parents.”

Lynzina’s mother, Roxanne, said they were angry with the school because her granddaughter was a victim of repeated bullying that went unaddressed.

Roxanne told CNYCentral: “She’s been slapped, she’s been kicked, they’ve broken her glasses three times, they’ve broken cellphones twice, and all we get [from the school] is, ‘Well, what is she doing?’ They made her out to be the problem.”

Lynzina managed to leave the school after beating the teacher up but was later arrested and charged with burglary and assault

Image credits: CNY Central

The angered grandmother reportedly said she felt bad for the injured teacher. She admitted: “That was never supposed to be that way.”

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She continued: “I apologize for that, and I hope she recovers. 

“There’s always a better way to handle stuff, and we were going to talk at the school to have a conversation with the school like we have numerous times.”

The Onondaga DA’s office told The Post on Wednesday (February 21) that Lynzina was released on bond and will appear in court at a later date. The teacher has been released from the hospital and is now reportedly recovering.

“This attack was horrific,” a reader exclaimed

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p_walerjan avatar
Premislaus de Colo
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Poland a teacher is a public officer so assault on a teacher performing his work equals to e.g. assault on a police officer

jacintafinn avatar
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And rightly so. Great to hear that's the case. I wonder if it's the same here in ireland when they're also considered civil servants. 🤔

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impossiblekat avatar
KatSaidWhat
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is the worst possible way of parenting. I hope she goes down for a long time. She will certainly be learning lessons in prison. That poor teacher, those poor kids.

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Kimberly Sandquist
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like bored panda for light entertainment not horrible news. What the heck.

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DarkViolet
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In no way am I justifying the mother's actions, but there's one thing that is being overlooked here. According to Lynzina's mother, she has been repeatedly bullied. Yet the school officials, instead of actually dealing with the issue, have deflected the blame onto the victim. The mother's actions are probably a result of their inaction. She deserves to face criminal charges for what she did. After all, she assaulted a teacher and may have cost her her livelihood. But what will be done about the bullying? What happens if another parent or student has reached their limit and decides to take matters into their own hands? The next time, it could involve firearms. Just saying.

binkstress avatar
Binky Melnik
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ack; it’s worse than bullying (which wasn’t mentioned in the article). The kid was “disciplined for allegedly lying about her whereabouts during the school day.” Wow. A teacher got her face broken, perhaps permanently, because a rotten kid blew this up to her mother, enraging her. I think the kid oughtta also be charged with something along the lines of inciting violence, at minimum. The “mother” either overreacted by an insane amount of else believed that the teacher had done something really heinous to her kid. Given we haven’t the details, all we can do is extrapolate, and I extrapolate the latter, that the kid told her mother that something much, MUCH worse had happened to her.

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sharyn turnicky
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Grandmother is sorry daughter got caught. I really like the Polish law would strongly support and a mandatory jail time of 5 years for first offense. Takes all the BS off the table.

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Tom Hardeveld
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Must admit, I liked the story about the grandpa hiding green beans from grandma a few articles back a lot better...

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Jack Butler
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh I can feel the hate boiling my way already, but here we go: Opening with, the assault on the teacher was not okay, especially an assault violent enough to do all that damage. At the same time, for a long time I was that bullied kid and every time I went to the teachers with broken or stolen items, ripped clothes or a black eye or bloody nose I was always told I should just "avoid confrontation". When I finally snapped in High School and beat the f**k out of two of my bullies I was dragged in to the Head's office and berated for defending myself. Current school policies are an absolute joke and heavily favour the bullies in every case I have ever found and this needs serious address to prevent this sort of boiling point happening again.

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Themis
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A mother don’t do this just for fun. Some teachers are evils and deserve jail too for how they treat the kids.

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HighNMightyBigshot
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1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Watching all the racists have a good time by blaming a kid that was bullied. Yet, on the other hand, they look for excuses about on why white kids continually shoot up schools and murder their fellow students. The Columbine murderers were the bullies but the overarching story is that they were the ones being bullied. In many cases at numbers greater than our representation in the population YT people are the majority of d**g dealers and users S3rial murderers Patricide spree killers US terrorism acts police brutality convictions hate crimes S3xual psychopaths srial rapists sxual sadists sxual deviants stalkers Obsession crimes Torture We lead in inc3st Necrophilia child porn Ped0philia Arsonists We lead in infanticide Abduction of children mass murder malpractice suits convicted politicians Cannibalism Etc. Etc. Etc. but let’s not point that out. We project our crimes onto Black people so we can continue to be the sociopaths we are. So yes, the comment sections reflect our racist/sociopathic nature

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Mark Alexander
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Student says “She’s been slapped, she’s been kicked, they’ve broken her glasses three times, they’ve broken cellphones twice, and all we get [from the school] is, ‘Well, what is she doing?’ They made her out to be the problem.” When the pot boils over, it's not the steam's fault. It's who left the heat on too high.

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Anony Mouse
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is definitely not the content I come to this site for.

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FluffyDreg
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This site is a collection of whatever anyone wants to post here. Skip it if you don't like it.

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Premislaus de Colo
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Poland a teacher is a public officer so assault on a teacher performing his work equals to e.g. assault on a police officer

jacintafinn avatar
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And rightly so. Great to hear that's the case. I wonder if it's the same here in ireland when they're also considered civil servants. 🤔

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impossiblekat avatar
KatSaidWhat
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is the worst possible way of parenting. I hope she goes down for a long time. She will certainly be learning lessons in prison. That poor teacher, those poor kids.

kimberlysandquist avatar
Kimberly Sandquist
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like bored panda for light entertainment not horrible news. What the heck.

hannahtaylor_2 avatar
DarkViolet
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In no way am I justifying the mother's actions, but there's one thing that is being overlooked here. According to Lynzina's mother, she has been repeatedly bullied. Yet the school officials, instead of actually dealing with the issue, have deflected the blame onto the victim. The mother's actions are probably a result of their inaction. She deserves to face criminal charges for what she did. After all, she assaulted a teacher and may have cost her her livelihood. But what will be done about the bullying? What happens if another parent or student has reached their limit and decides to take matters into their own hands? The next time, it could involve firearms. Just saying.

binkstress avatar
Binky Melnik
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ack; it’s worse than bullying (which wasn’t mentioned in the article). The kid was “disciplined for allegedly lying about her whereabouts during the school day.” Wow. A teacher got her face broken, perhaps permanently, because a rotten kid blew this up to her mother, enraging her. I think the kid oughtta also be charged with something along the lines of inciting violence, at minimum. The “mother” either overreacted by an insane amount of else believed that the teacher had done something really heinous to her kid. Given we haven’t the details, all we can do is extrapolate, and I extrapolate the latter, that the kid told her mother that something much, MUCH worse had happened to her.

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sharyn turnicky
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Grandmother is sorry daughter got caught. I really like the Polish law would strongly support and a mandatory jail time of 5 years for first offense. Takes all the BS off the table.

tomhardeveld avatar
Tom Hardeveld
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Must admit, I liked the story about the grandpa hiding green beans from grandma a few articles back a lot better...

silk105uk avatar
Jack Butler
Community Member
1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh I can feel the hate boiling my way already, but here we go: Opening with, the assault on the teacher was not okay, especially an assault violent enough to do all that damage. At the same time, for a long time I was that bullied kid and every time I went to the teachers with broken or stolen items, ripped clothes or a black eye or bloody nose I was always told I should just "avoid confrontation". When I finally snapped in High School and beat the f**k out of two of my bullies I was dragged in to the Head's office and berated for defending myself. Current school policies are an absolute joke and heavily favour the bullies in every case I have ever found and this needs serious address to prevent this sort of boiling point happening again.

baidabaidaan avatar
Themis
Community Member
1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A mother don’t do this just for fun. Some teachers are evils and deserve jail too for how they treat the kids.

tabitha_martinez10 avatar
HighNMightyBigshot
Community Member
1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Watching all the racists have a good time by blaming a kid that was bullied. Yet, on the other hand, they look for excuses about on why white kids continually shoot up schools and murder their fellow students. The Columbine murderers were the bullies but the overarching story is that they were the ones being bullied. In many cases at numbers greater than our representation in the population YT people are the majority of d**g dealers and users S3rial murderers Patricide spree killers US terrorism acts police brutality convictions hate crimes S3xual psychopaths srial rapists sxual sadists sxual deviants stalkers Obsession crimes Torture We lead in inc3st Necrophilia child porn Ped0philia Arsonists We lead in infanticide Abduction of children mass murder malpractice suits convicted politicians Cannibalism Etc. Etc. Etc. but let’s not point that out. We project our crimes onto Black people so we can continue to be the sociopaths we are. So yes, the comment sections reflect our racist/sociopathic nature

markalexander avatar
Mark Alexander
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Student says “She’s been slapped, she’s been kicked, they’ve broken her glasses three times, they’ve broken cellphones twice, and all we get [from the school] is, ‘Well, what is she doing?’ They made her out to be the problem.” When the pot boils over, it's not the steam's fault. It's who left the heat on too high.

equine_job avatar
Anony Mouse
Community Member
2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is definitely not the content I come to this site for.

fluffydreg avatar
FluffyDreg
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This site is a collection of whatever anyone wants to post here. Skip it if you don't like it.

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