Mom Accused of Driving Son to Fight Boy

[IRiSHMaFIA]

The mother of a 13-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly driving her son to a fight with another boy, then cheering him on as he struck his smaller opponent. Police say the mother shouted down another woman who tried to break up the fight across from Sutter Middle School on Monday. A student caught the scene on video.

Renee Ann Honnold, 37, of Folsom, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of two felonies, endangering the life or health of a child and criminal conspiracy, as well as contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor. Her son was cited for suspicion of misdemeanor battery.

"In my eight years I have never seen anything like this," Folsom Police Officer Kurt Knudsen said. "You can hear her on the tape shouting, 'Hit him! Hit him!' The kid is throwing serious punches."

Gayle Williams, who was parked nearby waiting to pick up her son, said she tried to intervene as Honnold's son pinned the other boy down and hit him.

"I thought she (Honnold) was coming to help me, but then she told me to mind my own business. She was out of control," Williams said. "Her rage put me in a defensive mode."

Knudsen said the fight was brief and neither boy was seriously injured. Both boys were suspended for five days.

Kim Williams, the mother of the boy who was beaten and who is no relation to the witness, said it was not fair to suspend her son.

"I don't think my son had a choice (to take part in the fight). Even if he kept walking, this mother would have kept after him," she said.

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Another contender for mother of the year award What a stupid irresponsible bitch! I wish the other child's mother clocked her into tomorrow.

I don't think the other child should have been suspended as he probably didn't have any choice but to defend himself against.

[Skylace]

First, this doesn't surprise me. I've worked with some many kids in the past whose parents, especially the mother, will tell their children that if someone so much as looks at them funny to punch them first.
We had one student in the second grade who decked another second grader because he sneezed on him. And a kindergartner who attacked another boy because she thought "He was going to me".

As for the fighting thing, sadly that's the case. It makes me sick that the kid who fights back gets suspended. Even if they didn't start it. My poor nephew this year was being choked by a student and he was afraid to fight back because he knew he would get suspended. We all sat down with him and told him to fight back no matter what if he is being hurt like that. We don't care if he's suspended and we'll support him 100% because he should be able to defend himself.

The logic behind it is "You don't know who started the fight" and my logic is, if there are reliable witnesses or you know the background of the students well you should judge from there. However, schools are so scared of lawsuits over this kind of thing that they will just suspend all who were fighing full stop.

[eefanincan]

It seems to me that this sort of violence is getting worse. I'm ok with kids figting as self defence but the fact that a parent would take their child to knowingly be involved is just wrong.

[girldorksrule]

Yes the whole, you must get your ass kicked because if you fight back you will be suspended is ridiculous.