Terri Evans is 30 years old, she is from the UK and she has a 12-year-old boy whom she loves madly, his name is Jacob. Although the boy learns very well and goes to a music school, a recent deed upset Terri very much.
A month ago, the mother found out that Jacob was torturing a recently transferred classmate. It seems that the boy did not limit himself only to words and also to deeds: he intentionally stepped on the girl so hard on her leg that her sole broke and she needed a new pair.
Finding out about his deed, he talked to the child at home but scolded him properly on Facebook, here is what the woman wrote:
“Absolutely disgusted that my 12-year-old son saw fit to purposefully tread on a new girl’s foot at school and twist his foot with such force it broke her brand new shoes (causing the heel) to snap (sic).
“I’ll tell you something Jacob if you so much as breath in her or anyone’s direction in a bullying manner I will personally hand you over to their parents for every demeaning chore they see fit for as long as they do … kiss goodbye to your birthday money as you will be buying the girl a new pair of shoes and a bunch of flowers! #iwillnothaveabullyinmyhouse”
The update adds: “To answer a few questions, yes my son can see it, he was tagged in it before it went viral (which I didn’t realise was going to happen) so his friends could see that his actions have consequences, he is not big, clever, hard or funny, he’s a 12 year old boy answerable to his mum.
“I don’t much care who doesn’t agree with my parenting style, my son humiliated and embarrassed a girl, regardless of his reasoning (which was he didn’t expect to break the shoe he just thought she may step out of it or stumble) that little girl still cried, for anyone’s knowledge that girl may have left her old school because she was being bullied … then imagine how much worse my son’s ridiculous act would have made her feel.
“So my so called embarrassing him online is to be quite frankly nothing in comparison to the humiliation that little girl had to face walking round with a broken shoe and red eyes from crying when she is new.
“Ps … of course I sat and spoke to him about his behaviour, I didn’t just tag him in a post and he read it! I am wholly confident this was a single occurrence which won’t be repeated.”
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