Some moms you just don't mess with.
Debbie Piscitella made it to the top of that list after choking the bully who was allegedly tormenting her 13-year-old daughter McKenna over the Internet.
“The boy tells my daughter that she is a fat f*****g whale and didn’t deserve to live because she is so nasty that he wouldn’t even rape her,” the Florida mom explained on Facebook.
So when she and McKenna ran into the bully while shopping at the St. Petersburg mall, Piscitella decided to confront the supposed teen tyrant. She told Good Morning America:
I said, "Stop saying things about my daughter on Facebook," and I did use some expletives, and I was told that he wasn't going to stop and he didn't have to stop. So I lost it. I really, really did.
Rage wasn't her first move, though. She had tried the passive approach, going to school administrators and even the police, but nothing was done. Piscitella reached her limit, she says, when McKenna became so upset she wanted to hurt herself. Then as the unapologetic kid refused to back off, her emotions got the best of her.
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“I just snapped. I didn't put both hands on his neck, it was just one hand, yes I shouldn't have done that, but you all do not even come close to understanding all the torment they have put my child through,” she also wrote her Facebook page.
Arrested on child abuse charges a few hours after the scuffle when the boy's mother saw red marks on his neck and called the police, Piscitalla said, “I wish it would have been another route I had taken. I don’t go around doing that to children. I don’t want to sound like I’m a huge monster.”
Monster? The only monster in this tale is that bully. Is attacking a child wrong? Obviously. But I can see why this mom became so enraged. The kid showed this adult just as much disrespect as he did to her daughter. He made it clear the torture was not going to end.
We can all relate to some degree. How many times have you spied a bully on the playground and wished you could give him or her a taste of their own medicine.
How many times have we read bullying stories that ended in the victim's suicide and wondered if something more could have been done? This mom feared for her daughter's life so she did what came instinctively -- defend and protect her child. I am not saying what she did was legally right, but I absolutely understand her reaction.
Listen to details about the bullying and attack here:
Do you think Piscitella was in the wrong for attacking her daughter's bully?
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Rae.302 imagine the entire school seeing those comments on Facebook and then having to go in to class every day...I'm sure it didn't stop once the kids closed their web browsers.
My son was bullied in person, via the internet and had terrible things said about him behind his back in vicious attempts to completely "destroy" him, in the words of his tormentors. He was threatened with physical harm several times. Vile things were said to him and about him to others. I didn't choke out the kids who did it to him, neither did my husband.
She shouldn't have put her hands on him, but as a parent I can absolutely understand why she did. My daughter has been having issues with her classmates for most of this school year and school administration has done absolutely nothing to help. When you have to send your child to a place where you know people are hurting them and you're basically powerless to stop them, it's a horrible feeling.
No she shouldn't have put her hands on the kid. But I completely understand why she did. When you see someone tormenting your child and are powerless to stop it...... Oh man. I don't know that I would be able to keep my cool either. You don't F*ck with Mama Bear.
I'm going to take a slightly different perspective on this, yet pretty much have the same opinion as anyone else. As a parent, if anyone, ANYONE puts their hands on my child's neck, regardless of what they've done (outside of protecting themselves), I'm going to call the police. Now, that aside, if I found out that my child was saying horrible awful hateful things on Facebook, in person, etc., you can bet that I would step in and discipline my own child. No Facebook. No computer at all, unless supervised and ONLY for school. I would hope that I would raise my kid to not be such an unfeeling awful person. Maybe the parents of this bully think differently?