A 33-year-old city woman was arrested after attacking the mother of a boy she believed encouraged her child to fight at an elementary school playground, according to Middletown Police.
On Oct. 5, police were called to a fight taking place on Spring Street and saw Shannon Sienna, 33, of Spring Street, who had blood coming from her ear, according to the report. She yelled that a female had hit her with a lock and pointed toward a woman and her sister who said the fight began after an incident at Chester Donovan Park adjacent to Macdonough Elementary School, the report indicates.
One of the women's juvenile son had fought with Sienna's son earlier, police say, after Sienna's son struck hers, so she encouraged him to hit the child back.
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The report says Sienna confronted the juvenile's mother by entering her yard, which had a no-trespassing sign, and attacked her "with other girls," the victim said, so she fought back by hitting Sienna with something after being pinned to a wall.
When one of the two sisters tried to call 911, the report says, Sienna took the cell phone and threw it. Sienna then told police she believed the mother had instigated the child to hit her son and the fight had been videotaped on bystanders' cell phones.
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Police watched the videos and Sienna's son told them some kids jumped him and one child threw a log at his back. The report says officers told Sienna she should have called police rather than attack her neighbors and told her son he's not allowed in the park without adult supervision. He agreed not to allow his friends to "bait" him into fighting other kids, the report indicates. >>> UPDATE <<<