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Mother Charged With Assault After Boarding School Bus & Allegedly Slapping Daughter’s 9-Year-Old Bully

Oct. 22, 2012 7:13am Billy Hallowell

TOMS RIVER, N.J. (TheBlaze/AP) — A New Jersey woman who says her 9-year-old daughter was bullied took matters into her own hands and confronted one of the students she says harassed the girl. Now, the mother is facing assault charges, even though she denied touching or hitting anyone.

The situation apparently commenced when Rebecca Sardoni and her mother boarded a school bus Friday morning bound for East Dover Elementary School, looking for a boy they claimed had been bullying her daughter on the bus.

From that point, there are conflicting versions of what happened next.

Several students on the bus said Rebecca Sardoni then cursed at the boy and slapped him and a boy seated next to him while her mother yelled at the two boys, Toms River Police Chief Michael G. Mastronardy told The Asbury Park Press.

Rebecca Sardoni Charged With Assault After Allegedly Slapping Daughters Bully

Rebecca Sardoni is accused of slapping her daughter’s 9-year-old bully. (Photo Credit: Facebook)

Rebecca Sardoni, 28, of Toms River, and her mother, 51-year-old Stephanie Sardoni, of Beachwood, were arrested Friday and released on summonses. Rebecca Sardoni is charged with simple assault, criminal trespass and making terroristic threats. Stephanie Sardoni is charged with criminal trespass.

Rebecca Sardoni told The Associated Press on Sunday that she regretted boarding the bus, but she denied touching or hitting anyone.

“I was upset. I wasn’t crazy woman upset,” she said. “I don’t put my hands on my own kids. I would have never put my hands on anyone’s kid.”

Sardoni said her daughter is upset and nervous about going to school Monday. She said she’s considering sending her daughter to a new school but knows for sure that the girl won’t be taking the bus anymore.

“It’s crazy that this got blown into me doing something wrong — me and my family — when this is my daughter that is the victim,” Sardoni told the AP.

Photo Credit: AP

Sardoni said she took matters into her own hands after school officials ignored complaints that her daughter, who is also in fourth-grade, had been verbally and physically bullied by four students. She said her mother merely stood at the front of the bus with the driver.

School officials couldn’t be reached Sunday by the AP.

The boys were treated by nurses from Toms River Regional Schools for cuts to their mouths. One of the boys was taken by his parents to a local hospital for treatment of a neck injury, Mastronardy said.

The stepfather of one of the boys — who have not been named because of their ages — told the newspaper his stepson had a cut on his lip after Rebecca Sardoni slammed his head against the bus window.

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blackyb
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 1:49pm
Neck injury my butt.

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jrcess
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 1:47pm
In Texas we would have given her an award.

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Byrdi
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 1:27pm
What is wrong with the bus driver. I was bullied in elementary school for 2 days. The bus driver made them stop. Bless his heart. He didn’t hit them, threaten them, etc. He made them apologize. Imagine that! They never did it again.

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Mollyp
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 12:19pm
It’s happening everywhere!
http://www.foxcharlotte.com/news/top-stories/Football-Player-Beaten-By-Teammates-For-Being-Jewish-175034981.html?m=y&smobile=y&clmob=y&c=n

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SameOldStuff
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 12:10pm
The parents of those boys should be ashamed that 4 of them were ganging up on one girl! I would not have taken them to the doctor’s for “cuts on the side of their mouths”. This only shows them for the wusses that they are. I would have told them off for ganging up on the girl. Where is the common sense? I got taken to the principal’s office for beating up 2 brothers that used to tease me and threw my new white hat into the mud. My father could never get over how a the boys’ father could stoop so low as to let the principal know that his two sons got beat up by a girl and had been ungentlemanly bullying a girl. He thought that this was a great shame and I think that it is a great shame that the girl’s mother had to resort to getting on the bus to defend her daughter whether she slapped them or not. That is what is wrong with this country. People cannot recognize who is the bully and who is the victim. The girl was the victim and the boys were the bullies and the school and the boys’ parents were the enablers. Four boys picking on one girl rushed to the doctors by their mommies and daddies from a frustrated mother’s slap. Oh my goodness, whiplash! No wonder they are such a bunch of wusses.

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katzmeow44
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 11:48am
Im putting my child in Jujitsu this spring. By the time she is in High School she will be a black belt. I triple dog dare a bully to mess with her then. I was bullied in school and used the ‘ignore them and they will get bored and leave you alone’ tactic. It didn’t work. That was 22 years ago and the kids are worse nowadays.

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watashbuddyfriend
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:49am
Why is Johnny-come-lately arresting Rebecca? They should be praising her!

Now, on the other hand, if her 9-year old daughter is as beautiful as her mother, maybe I can appreciate the boys attention to daughter? It is kinda sly how the male will do things to draw the female attention. grin, and grin.

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- JRook
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 11:43am
  Great analysis. So your solution for addressing “bullying”, or perhaps the girl was just being teased a bit, is to have the adult slap, hit, push, etc. two 9 year old boys. How can the issue of her striking the boys be alleged if they were treated for cuts. Deal with the facts folks and don’t project your ideology through an interpretation of the facts or situation. Stop being Belief Entitled…. meaning what you believe means very little if it is not based on fact, scientific findings and rational analysis.
  
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- TAXEVERYONE
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 12:26pm
  @jrook, obviously you have never even in a bullying situation when no one involved with the school would help. You are also too critical of this woman while you offered no opinion of yor own, only big words.
  
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G-WHIZ
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:32am
What happened to the busdriver not-allowing bullying on his watch?! Sue the busdriver, privately, for not even calling the athorities on the bully so they can “pick him up and arrest him when the bus next stops!!

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- jayjayson
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 12:27pm
  Bear in mind that there is one bus driver and 70 kids. If he/she didin’t see it, the school won’t care. The bus driver most likely reported the bulling to the school. If that bus driver then reported to the police, they would be fired because there was no investigation. Plus it doesn’t help that bullying is not against the law per say.
  
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- TAXEVERYONE
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 12:27pm
  She should have confronted the bus driver.
  
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kat747
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:27am
The girl’s mother compained to the school and she was ignored.
Meaning that the school ignored the bullying along with the safety of the girl.
So
now the school can just ignore the fact that the girl’s parent had to take the matter into her own hands.

Hopefully the little Future Prisoners-of-America learned a good lesson from this experience.

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overthecliff
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:47am
When seconds count the authorities are only minutes away. The government will not, can not, and doesn`t want to protect you. It is up to you. Better to be judged in court than to have the crap beat out of you by a bully.

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jungle J
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:27am
send your children to school with teacher and student animals and this is what you get. So many mentally ill people have children and what do you think their children are like. We need the Marines patrolling the halls at most ghetto schools. The sane know and are outnumbered.

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Melika
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:25am
First, she’s a north Jersey moron. None of us know what she did or didn’t do on the bus. Second, the parent’s of the boys are north Jersey morons. “Simple Assault” does not usually result in “neck injuries” requiring a hospital visit – that is pure, unadulterated lawsuit fodder.

With that said, you can tell what kind of insane moron she is because she got on the bus and confronted children. What a real mother does is visit the household and have a nice, reasonable talk with the children’s mother/guardian, whichever one is the weaker. Nice and quiet. No screaming, nothing to rouse the neighbors or the husband/boyfriend who sleeps over/step-father. Just a nice, gentle informative talk about consequences.

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- kat747
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:35am
  I resent that racial slur about being a “North Jersey Moron”.
  If there were more parents like Stephanie, these kids wouldn’t be in a messed up,
  drugged up world like they are now.
  Can you just see what would have happened if this scenerio happened in LosAngeles
  or Detroit ?
  Instead of being bullied, the child would have been shot…..is this what you want ?
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:37am
  …bring yourlawyer with you and a writ of lawsuitagainst the bully’s parrents! Let the lawyer gentelly inform them about when the court-date is and come and be sued!! Then comley walk out the door.
  
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- TAXEVERYONE
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 12:49pm
  @melicka, if that is really your name, you seem very free to call people in NJ morons.
  Just curious, in which state are you a moron?
  
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sta
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 8:17am
Homeschool. NJ has eTAP. Get your kids out the the “Lord of the Flies” institution.

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- johnjamison
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:00am
  Exactly, Public schools are no place for learning they are places where children are now taught what to think and not how to think for themselves. It a primes example of why the U.S. is falling behind on innovation. government schools are design to create government tools. My kids will only see inside of one during our local spelling bees and the occational dance.
  
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- watashbuddyfriend
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:52am
  Now, @sta
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 8:17am
  
  “Homeschool. NJ has eTAP. Get your kids out the the “Lord of the Flies” institution.”
  
  I like your comment.
  
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ohioan1000
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 8:13am
Good for you, mom.

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philoise65
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 8:09am
School districts and their administrators and principals are literally scared to death of parents, students, and publicity.

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Magyar
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 7:57am
Generally there’s a camera on board—Let’s see what happened?

I’m sure the school did nothing and Mom took matters into her own hands!

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LakewoodEd
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 7:51am
In my day, that was expected mom behavior.

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DmrNDrt
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 7:51am
Good for her! If the school won’t act and the parents won’t discipline their kids, what other option did she have? Wait until they physically hurt her daughter, instead of just mentally abusing her?

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decendentof56
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 7:48am
This crap happens, and I don’t blame that parent one bit. I know for a fact that schools sweep bullying under the rug. They don’t want problems to be associated with their school.

This happened to my grand-daughter when she was a senior in HS. A problem was brought (by my grand-daughter) to the attention of the V-Prin of the wing in which she had most of her classes after the start of the 2010-11 school year. The VP kept the problem to himself, telling my grand-daughter to “buck up”. Thats a quote! Can you believe it?
Things got ugly in May of 2011. My grand-daughter ended up finishing her Senior-year with a tutor to avoid the harrasment . She did not attend her graduation or prom for the same reason. The Perp was an ex-”boyfriend” who had hit her on her legs. Though he was suspended, along with two others, they were re-instated due to him being class president and a campaign where t-shirts were plastered all over the school by his agitator-friends. He has since been kicked out of WVU.
My GD was a top 10% student, so don’t even think she was a loser. When I went to the school with her mom and her boyfriend’s dad to talk to the head administrator, he absolutely knew nothing about the situation.
What’s aggravating to me is that people wrote the local paper to take sides with the ex-boyfriend without knowing any of the details. One even wrote “Though I do not know the students involved or any of the details, I think the punishment is too harsh.” can you beli

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pfscribe
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 7:39am
What stinks is these kids will be coddled now in order to avoid a civil suit, which will only serve to condone the initial poor behavior.

I could go so far as supporting a mother who slapped a bully to protect her child. Causing injury to a 9 year-old is out of line.

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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 7:53am
  The little punks got in a fight with each other. Prove other wise!
  
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Brents Torts
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 7:37am
I call bs on the claims that Ms Sardoni hit the boys. What does the bus driver say? Where is the video tape from the busses security camera?

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yancie03
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 7:33am
Why do girls all over america take pictures of their self in bathrooms? I see people on face book always in a bathroom.

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jdare
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 7:33am
Now, take your boys home and beat their ass.

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Gary_K
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 7:19am
Where is the video from the school bus camera?

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