“Parents have the responsibility to protect our children, not harm them. We must ensure a safe and respectful environment for our students,” said the prosecutor
- Latea Hentz has been charged with criminal confinement, battery resulting in moderate injury, intimidation and criminal trespassing.
- Hentz and her two children were allegedly captured on video getting into an altercation on a school bus with a 14-year-old child.
- Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears said, “Parents have the responsibility to protect our children, not harm them.”
An Indiana mother faces several felony charges after a viral video of her circulating online allegedly showed her and her two children getting into an altercation with another student on a school bus.
Latea Hentz, 36, has been charged with criminal confinement, battery resulting in moderate injury, intimidation and criminal trespassing for her role in an altercation that occurred with a 14-year-old student on March 6, according to charging documents from the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office obtained by PEOPLE.
According to the prosecutor’s office, Hentz boarded a Warren Township bus “with her son and daughter to confront another student” before an “alleged physical altercation occurred” between the two children — her son, 13, and daughter, 17 — and the other student. That’s when Hentz “allegedly struck the child multiple times.”…