‘I want her crying’: Father makes 6-year-old daughter repeatedly punch 7-year-old on school bus, commands ‘again’ when he wasn’t satisfied, police say

A Missouri father is accused of entering a school bus with his young daughter and commanding her to repeatedly punch another girl in the head until the girl cried.

Maurice Fox, 36, faces charges of first-degree harassment, two counts of fourth-degree assault, and trespassing on a school bus, St. Louis County jail records show. He was arrested on Monday night, but the underlying incident occurred on Oct. 9, authorities said.

It was just after 9 a.m. that day in Ferguson, and a Ferguson-Florissant School District bus rolled up to the 100 block of Frost Avenue. As the bus stopped, Fox and his 6-year-old daughter got on — despite the bus driver putting his arm out and telling the suspect “he couldn’t enter the bus,” according to a criminal complaint reviewed by Law&Crime…

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