A 33-year-old woman named Kady Ann Sewell was arrested and charged with child abuse without causing great bodily harm, educational interference, and trespassing the school safety zone for beating a student at a Florida City school on Thursday.
Surveillance video captured Sewell freely walking into Bethel Seventh Day Adventist private school with a belt in her hand. She approached a student and began beating him with the belt.
“The mom comes in fussing and cussing at my child and just beating him in his face! His head, his face, his arms,” the victim’s mother told NBC Miami.
According to WPLG 10, the student Sewell assaulted was 13-year-old, Nehemiah Johnson. Johnson’s mom said that Sewell hit him because of a fight he got into with her son. However, the woman also said Sewell’s son was bullying and fat-shaming Johnson. Johnson picked up Sewell’s son and “dropped him in response to being bullied.”
“[My son] was being bullied, he defended himself, and then the mom came, and she was hitting on him and whooping on him with a belt,” Zendre Pollard, Johnson’s mom, said.
The bully’s mother left bruises on the 13-year-old teen’s lip and arm.
“It was hard to watch,” Pollard said. “I don’t want anybody’s child to go through anything like this. It was very hard to watch. I’m at the point where my child should have been protected. How can a parent get that far and start swinging at my child?”
Johnson’s mother got him checked out at a local hospital due to his history of seizures.
“My son could have [gone] into a seizure and died,” Pollard said. “Anything. You’re just hitting him across the head.”
Sewell was arrested Saturday after the Florida City Police Department encountered Sewell did not go home or work after the incident.
Pollard has a temporary restraining order against Sewell but will be pressing charges against the woman, who she knows personally. Pollard also wants answers from the school’s administrators as to why Sewell was able to walk into the school and assault her son.
“How did this lady get this far, was able to hit my child multiple times, and you saw it wasn’t broken up. She walked out calmly,” Pollard said. “My child wasn’t safe. My son was bullied by her son and then bullied by the mom.”
