“They beat me and dragged me all over the school”: parents attack the teacher, threaten her with death and ask her to kneel to apologize to her son

Speechless. So goes the viral video circulating from Mexico showing the brutal beating a teacher receives from the parents of one of her students.

The images shock, outrage and disturb. First, because it happened in an educational center; Second, the parents went to great lengths in front of their son.

The violent scene, in which the teacher was savagely attacked by the pair, was witnessed by her kindergarten student Frida Khalo, based in Cuautitlán Izcalli, Mexico State.

Roselia, the kindergarten cook, did not escape the attacks. Other preschoolers watched the beating by leaning out of some windows.

The teacher, identified as Brenda, related the events to the media in her country on Tuesday, July 18, 2023.

He took in his dying stepdaughter after brutally beating her while the mother slept and later blamed the dog for pushing her down the stairs.

Violence in kindergarten against the teacher

“I didn’t know the child’s parents,” said the educator at the beginning, adding that she had only been working at the kindergarten for a few weeks.

In Infobae they reported that Brenda said that initially “the parents of the minor sought the principal to talk about problems with their son, but were attended by the teacher, who was beaten by the mother seconds later.”

A woman opened a door, grabbed Brenda by the hair “and pulled her.”

–she’s the bad oneshouted the child.

“I didn’t know the reason for the attack,” said the teacher.

Recalling the situation, he told Azucena Uresti: “The father got in, the mother hit me and started pulling my hair. At that moment I did not understand what was happening, they just came to attack me (…)”.

“The mother kicked me and told me to stop messing with her son,” he added.

The most chilling thing was told by the teacher: “The boy witnessed the whole scene, the mother dragged me through the school, and the boy laughed at what his parents did to me”.

Brenda stated that “the lady in the kitchen went to ask for help and they pushed her to see them beat me,” she said in an interview covered in Infobae.

The teacher described that her student’s father was armed and “threatened to kill her.” The educator insisted:They knelt before the child to ask forgiveness. I was shocked”.

Arrested the abusive couple, why the attack on the teacher

The Mexican State Prosecutor’s Office identified Brenda’s student’s parents as Jesús Adid “N” and Laura “N”. The couple sued the teacher for alleged child abuse of their child.

Brenda, with the video the world has seen, also sued them for the beating and threats. In the Azucena Uresti program, it was mentioned that two people spoke about the violent past of Jesús Adid “N”.

One revealed she allegedly pointed a gun at him in an avenue; the other indicated that they were neighbors and had to leave the house because he hit her.

The boy’s grandfather, quoted in El Heraldo de México, said the grandson had a strange demeanor and suffered burns.

“My daughter-in-law has been asking for an audience with the director for a week because the child has been acting strange for a week. He was asked and he said nothing (…),” said Alberto Hernández.

Suddenly the boy starts crying and says it was the teacher.

Alberto Hernandez, grandfather

What happens to the child and what they say on social networks

According to Infobae, the child was made available to the National System for the Comprehensive Development of Families (DIF) to be delivered to a relative who can prove his relationship.

On social networks, users express concern about what is shown in the video and because this child is growing up next to a man who is armed.

“That’s not the way to argue, let alone in front of the kid and with a gun. Such a small child who makes fun of the beating the teacher receives,” criticizes Dulce María Ortiz.

Most ask a psychologist or psychiatrist to intervene in this situation. They wonder if the child was injured in kindergarten and say: “A child who has been violated does not laugh or mock, on the contrary, he would be shy and afraid.”