Pictured in her mugshot: Student, TEN, arrested after 'punching and threatening to kill teacher over candy'
Arrested: Miesha Bryant, 10, was charged with felony battery
A ten-year-old girl was arrested for attacking her teacher in class and charged with felony battery.
Miesha Bryant, from Orange County, is a fifth grade student at Zellwood Elementary school. A deputy was called to her classroom last week after she allegedly hit her teacher in the stomach and threatened to kill her family.
Miesha admitted she threw a temper tantrum after her teacher took away a bag of candy she brought to school.
She said: 'I pushed stuff, pushed papers on the desk and stuff.'
But her mother Sebrina Bryant refuses to believe her daughter would do such a thing and said there was no reason for her to be arrested.
She told WFTV: 'Did she need to be arrested? No. No. No. I was shocked, devastated. And I am furious.
Ms Bryant said her daughter is just as innocent as she looks on her mugshot and cannot believe that she threatened to kill her teacher, saying: 'I know my children.'
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A spokesperson for the Orange County Sheriff's Office said the law is clear: if you hit a school employee, it's a felony, it doesn't matter how old you are.
Sorry: Miesha said she knows what she did was wrong and promised not to do it again
Mother: Sebrina Bryant said her daughter should not have been arrested and she does not think she would threaten a teacher
Miesha has been suspended rather than expelled from school as she is so young.
The State Attorney's Office will decide in 21 days if she goes through a trial or qualifies for a diversion program.
This is the third time this month a juvenile has been charged after an incident at school.
Last week a 16-year-old girl was tried as an adult for attacking an assistant principal at her Orange County School, and on November 1, a nine-year-old was charged with battery on a school employee and a law enforcement officer, as well as throwing a deadly missile into an occupied vehicle and resisting arrest after she lost it on a school bus.
The unnamed girl allegedly spat and kicked at the driver and threatened to hit the other children before throwing pieces of asphalt at the bus.
When the deputy arrived she threw a metal chair at him and tried to bite him.
Arrested: Miesha Bryant, 10, was charged with felony battery A ten-year-old girl was arrested for attacking her teacher in class and charged with felony battery.
Miesha Bryant, from Orange County, is a fifth grade student at Zellwood Elementary school. A deputy was called to her classroom last week after she allegedly hit her teacher in the stomach and threatened to kill her family.
Miesha admitted she threw a temper tantrum after her teacher took away a bag of candy she brought to school.
She said: 'I pushed stuff, pushed papers on the desk and stuff.'
But her mother Sebrina Bryant refuses to believe her daughter would do such a thing and said there was no reason for her to be arrested.
She told WFTV: 'Did she need to be arrested? No. No. No. I was shocked, devastated. And I am furious.
Ms Bryant said her daughter is just as innocent as she looks on her mugshot and cannot believe that she threatened to kill her teacher, saying: 'I know my children.'
More...
A spokesperson for the Orange County Sheriff's Office said the law is clear: if you hit a school employee, it's a felony, it doesn't matter how old you are.
Sorry: Miesha said she knows what she did was wrong and promised not to do it again
Mother: Sebrina Bryant said her daughter should not have been arrested and she does not think she would threaten a teacherMiesha has been suspended rather than expelled from school as she is so young.
The State Attorney's Office will decide in 21 days if she goes through a trial or qualifies for a diversion program.
This is the third time this month a juvenile has been charged after an incident at school.
Last week a 16-year-old girl was tried as an adult for attacking an assistant principal at her Orange County School, and on November 1, a nine-year-old was charged with battery on a school employee and a law enforcement officer, as well as throwing a deadly missile into an occupied vehicle and resisting arrest after she lost it on a school bus.
The unnamed girl allegedly spat and kicked at the driver and threatened to hit the other children before throwing pieces of asphalt at the bus.
When the deputy arrived she threw a metal chair at him and tried to bite him.
