MACON, Georgia - A teacher-parent brawl in front of 19 primary school pupils sent a mother to the emergency room and the teacher to jail.
Teacher Katrina Ann Rucker, 30, (pictured below) is charged with battery and cruelty to children for allegedly beating a parent who tried to retrieve her daughter's book bag, The Macon Telegraph newspaper reported Friday.
At the classroom door, the girl told her mother that Rucker had thrown her bag in the trash can, the report stated. Amica entered the classroom and tried to get the book bag, but Rucker grabbed for it and the two struggled, the report said.
After Amica wrestled the bag away, police say Rucker picked up a chair and hit her in the back, knocking Amica to the floor. Rucker then began punching Amica in the face and body.
During the fight, the girl was reportedly crying for her teacher to stop hitting her mother and ran up to them. Rucker then allegedly hit the child, pulled her hair and pushed her out of the way before starting to strike the mother again.
Rucker dragged Amica by the hair outside the classroom, according to the report.
"The teacher said she was defending herself because she gets a shot in that hand and it hurt," Hofmann said.
When school police arrived they say that Rucker had Amica pinned down on the ground and was beating her with both fists, and they had to pull her off to subdue her.
Lurella Amica was then taken to the Macon Medical Center to have x-rays taken of her face, and medical reports show that Amica suffered a broken nose, a possible fractured skull, multiple contusions of the face, and eye hemorrhages.
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Damn, if that was my mom she'd beat the living hell out of that teacher. Yeeesh...haha