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Title: Professor cleared in assault of child
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Frederick News-Post
URL Source: http://www.fredericknewspost.com/se ... news/display.htm?storyid=51699
Published: Aug 24, 2006
Author: Kate Leckie
Post Date: 2006-08-24 18:58:17 by Tauzero
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Professor cleared in assault of child By Kate Leckie Judge Janice Rodnick Ambrose delivered that message as a postscript to her acquittal of Tracy Parker, 38, an assistant professor at Frederick Community College. Charged with conspiracy to commit second-degree assault and contributing to the condition of a child, the legal term for contributing to delinquency, Ms. Parker could have been jailed if convicted of either. She embraced family members when Judge Ambrose dismissed the charges at the end of three hours of testimony. No defense witnesses were called. Outside the courtroom, Ms. Parker declined comment. Manager of FCC's paralegal program, Ms. Parker was in court to defend her response to a third-grader hitting her 8-year-old while he rode home on the school bus more than nine months ago. Ms. Parker wanted her son, also in third grade at Yellow Springs Elementary School, to stand up for himself, said her defense attorney, William L. Haugh Jr. Believing her son, Vaughn, who is black, had endured racial insults during the Nov. 16 fight on the bus, Ms. Parker was angry, according to court testimony. She got in the family's minivan and followed the bus to the residence of the other boy involved in the scuffle. About 30 seconds after Mustafa Anderabi, 9, got off the bus at his Clover Hill residence, he heard Ms. Parker yelling, Mustafa said, the witness stand microphone positioned above his eyes at the top of his blond buzz haircut. "The lady yelled at me," said the child, dressed in a suit and necktie. "I couldn't say a word. She didn't let me speak. I was scared. I didn't know what she was going to do." He admitted hitting Vaughn on the bus, but denied calling him names. He said the fight involved a Game Boy handheld video game and ripped Pokemon cards. Although he doesn't remember Ms. Parker's words, he remembers Vaughn's punches. He acknowledged to Mr. Haugh that he jutted his jaw out and told Vaughn to hit him. "You let Vaughn hit you," Mr. Haugh said. "You said, 'Let's make it even.'" But Vaughn landed three blows, hitting Mustafa twice in the forehead and once in the stomach. "Both spots hurted," Mustafa said. Mustafa's older brother, Merteza, 14, recalled some of the words Ms. Parker yelled. Pressed by Assistant State's Attorney Anthony M. Cecala and Judge Ambrose, Merteza reluctantly repeated one statement. "'If you ever touch my son again, I'll kill you, you little son of a b----,'" he quoted Ms. Parker as saying. Asked to identify the woman he saw yelling at his brother, Merteza extended his right arm toward the defense table and pointed at Ms. Parker -- without looking at her. Yellow Springs' principal, counselor and Vaughn's third-grade teacher recalled
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Judge cautions parents should let children resolve their own petty disputes
Published on August 24, 2006
News-Post Staff
FREDERICK -- Squabbles between children are perhaps best left on the playground -- or refereed by school officials, a judge said Wednesday in Frederick County District Court. 
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#1. To: Tauzero (#0)
Right on Mom. You think her kid will be targeted again by that boy or his brother. Hell no.
Squabbles between children are perhaps best left on the playground -- or refereed by school officials, a judge said Wednesday in Frederick County District Court.
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