A Detroit mother and her 13-year-old daughter are charged in connection with the stabbing of another 13-year-old student at an elementary-middle school last week.
Lacara Anita Parks, 37, is charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor and possession of a weapon in a weapons-free school zone. Both are misdemeanors. Parks’ daughter is charged with assault with intent to do great bodily harm and possession of a weapon in a weapons-free school zone.
Wayne County prosecutors allege that the teen and another student were attending Gompers Elementary-Middle School in Detroit on the morning of Oct. 8, when Parks gave her daughter a pocketknife on school property to be used if she needed to defend herself while returning home from school…