A New York teenager has said she was left traumatized after allegedly being hit over the head with a metal Stanley Cup by another girl’s mom at her school.
Madison Evans, 14, said she is now ‘shaking all the time’ after the attack left her with 17 stitches – and admits she may never use the brand again because of the distress.
‘I can’t even look at those cups anymore. Every time I see one, it just brings it all back,’ she told the New York Post.
The teen said the incident unfolded around 11am Tuesday as she was leaving Brentwood High School in Long Island and was approached by two girls who had issues with her cousin, but who she has never met before.
She said the girls began bullying her because of her association with her cousin, and footage from outside the school showed the girls arguing back-and-forth.
As one of the girls was held back by a security guard, Toni Monroe, 35, the mother of one of the girls, entered the spat.
Monroe was heard telling her daughter to ‘give me your Stanley’, taking the large metal cup from her hands and confronting Madison with it.
The footage allegedly showed Monroe bashing the 14-year-old over the head with the cup multiple times as her daughter also joined in.
New York teenager Madison Evans, 14, says she has been left traumatized after allegedly being hit over the head with a metal Stanley cup by another girl’s mom at her school
The incident unfolded around 11am Tuesday as the teen was leaving Brentwood High School in Long Island, with footage showing two teens confronting Madison before Toni Monroe, 35, the mother of one of the girls, entered the spat
Witnesses told the Post that Monroe then tried to run away after allegedly attacking the teen, but was stopped by a security guard.
Monroe was arrested by the police in the parking lot and charged with assault.
She was released without bail but was ordered to be fitted with an ankle monitor and barred from contacting Madison.
Madison said the attack left her with blood streaming down her face, and said she was so shaken from the incident she ‘thought (she) was going to die.’
The teen said she initially thought Monroe was another girl at the school, admitting she was ‘shocked’ to find out it was allegedly a mother at the school.
‘I thought it was another student, but then when I looked at her, she had a tattoo,’ she continued.
‘Then I just kept trying to defend myself.’
The teen said she is now ‘shaking all the time’ after the attack left her with 17 stitches – and admits she may never use the cup brand again because of the distress
Monroe was arrested by the police in the parking lot and charged with assault. She was released without bail but was ordered to be fitted with an ankle monitor and barred from contacting Madison
Shameakca Forney, Madison’s guardian, said the video was hard to believe as she condemned Monroe’s alleged attack.
‘If you’re going to let the kids fight, then let the kids fight — kids will be kids, we’ve all done it growing up — but you don’t jump in and fight kids,’ Forney said.
Monroe claimed in court that she was at the school to complain about her own daughter being bullied.
But Madison’s family told the Post that there was no excuse for the adult to have allegedly attacked the teen.
‘As a mom you’re supposed to diffuse the situation and take your daughter away to see what’s going on instead of attacking a kid with a cup,’ said Madison’s cousin, Tyleen Smith.
Brentwood schools Superintendent Wanda Ortiz-Rivera said in a statement after the footage circulated across social media that the incident was ‘unacceptable.’
‘The safety and well-being of our students is always our highest priority,’ she said.
‘This type of behavior will not be tolerated in our schools.’
