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Oct 10, 2008 6:12 am US/Eastern

Mom Charged With Instigating Middle School Fight

Reporting
Christine Sloan
DOVER, N.J. (CBS) ― A New Jersey mom stands accused of instigating a fight between her daughter and another teenager.

Kassandra Torres, 14, has been charged with assault as a juvenile for punching a fellow student at a Dover Middle School. "She hit me first, then on Tuesday I was hearing stuff. I said, 'If you have to say stuff, back it up,' and she started fighting with me," Torres said.

Torres, speaking with CBS 2HD with her mother's permission, said she was defending herself against bullies who picking on her for being the new kid in school.

"Since the first day of school they've been picking on me, like it started with one girl and ended with 20 of them," Torres said.

Torres' mother, Sharon Quintero, has also been charged with instigating the brawl which happened on October 8 on King Street. "She wanted to know if she wanted to fight her daughter. She said, 'No, I don't even know your daughter.' The mother went back to her daughter and says, 'If you don't fight her we're going to go home, there's going to be problems'," Dover Police Captain Robert Kerwick described.

"I did not instigate the fight," Quintero said. She claims she was walking her daughter home from school when the fight broke out.

"I shouldn't allowed it to happen," she said. However, she also said it's been a scary situation.

"I was there for her, and I'm the bad guy? The school hasn't done anything. She's been bullied," Quintero said.

Quintero was charged with disorderly conduct for a fight between her daughter and another girl the day before.

Another mother said Quintero grabbed her 15-year-old daughter who was trying to stop the fight. "She tried to call the cops, and she got close, and her mother grabbed her by her hair."

"Unfortunately another girl got in to jump in or to break it up, I didn't know that so I pulled the girl off of her," Quintero said.

Quintero will be in court on Tuesday answering to the October 8 charges.


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