'She took it to the next level': Mom helped her kids beat up 10-year-old who called her a 'fat a—,' police say

A Florida pistillate is accused of directing her ain children to attack a 10-year-old lad and past physically restraining the kid during the confrontation that followed astatine a vicinity park.

Ketsy Ann Rivera, 41, was arrested and charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, child abuse without large bodily harm, and mendacious imprisonment, authorities announced.

According to a news release from the Osceola County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded Monday to the Heritage Park Apartment Complex for a reported disturbance involving aggregate juveniles astatine a assemblage park. Witnesses and the kid told authorities that a combat broke retired among a radical of children who had been playing together.

Investigators said the concern escalated aft immoderate of the children near the country and returned with their mothers, starring to a confrontation betwixt adults and minors. Authorities allege Rivera played a cardinal relation successful the incident.

"One of the mothers, 41-year-old Ketsy Ann Rivera, pushed her children (8 and 9 years old) towards the 10-year-old unfortunate and instructed them to onslaught the child," the quality merchandise states. "Ketsy Rivera past grabbed the unfortunate by his shirt, preventing him from leaving oregon defending himself."

Deputies said the alleged actions near the kid visibly injured. Responding officers observed "significant swelling of his near eye" pursuing the encounter.

The child's parent aboriginal arrived astatine the country and requested that charges beryllium pursued against Rivera. First responders with the occurrence section besides evaluated the kid astatine the scene. Officials said that contempt the evident injuries, the kid was yet cleared of immoderate superior aesculapian concerns.

Authorities did not bespeak whether immoderate different individuals progressive successful the archetypal altercation betwixt the children would look charges.

Rivera was taken into custody and booked into the Osceola County Jail. Officials person not released further details astir whether she has retained an lawyer oregon erstwhile she is expected to look successful court.

Court records obtained by Orlando ABC affiliate WFTV provided further details astir the alleged altercation.

According to authorities, soon aft the 3 children got into an archetypal altercation, the 2 younger kids brought Rivera, their mother, to the playground. At immoderate point, the 10-year-old reportedly called Rivera a "fat a—."

That's erstwhile Rivera allegedly inserted herself into the confrontation.

"She was really holding him backmost wherever helium could not adjacent support himself from the different 2 boys coming astatine him oregon get distant from the situation. It was 3 against one," Capt. Kim Montes with the Osceola County Sheriff's Office told the station. "It's her occupation arsenic a ma to travel successful and effort and deescalate this, not ramp it up. And that's precisely what she did here. She took it to the adjacent level."

Rivera was processed astatine the Osceola County Detention Center and released aft posting enslaved of $12,000.