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A Mother Is Arrested For Helping Her Daughter Fight A 12 Year Old Bully [VIDEO]
32-year-old Daphne Melin of Shirley, on Long Island, New York, was arrested on Sunday after she encouraged her 12-year-old daughter to fight another 12-year-old girl who was bullying her. Daphne then jumped in and helped her daughter fight the bully.
After Daphne's daughter and the other girl had been fighting for several minutes, Daphne allegedly spit in the girl's face, grabbed her hair, and kneed her in the head. Video and photos quickly surfaced online, and Daphne was arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child and attempted assault.
When Daphne was asked by reporters, she told them the other girl had been cyberbullying her daughter on Facebook and the school wasn't doing anything about it so finally, she decided she had to take things into her own hands.
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