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Attention Moms: Don't Get Caught Cheering On Your Kid In A YouTube Video Fight

A Florida mother who stood on the sidelines cheering on her daughter during a planned high school fight between the teen and another girl was arrested today for child abuse.

According to a Manatee County Sheriff’s Office affidavit, April Newcomb, 39, can be seen on multiple YouTube videos “encouraging” her daughter “to physically fight” with the other girl. The videos, one of which can be viewed below, were filmed by attendees of the fight, which occurred in a vacant field near Palmetto High School.

As seen in this still, it appears most teens present came prepared to record the fisticuffs. 

When questioned by a cop, Newcomb, pictured in the mug shot at right, claimed that she only attended the bout between the two 16-year-old combatants in order “to make sure nothing got out of hand.” She also wanted to look out for her daughter’s health since the teen had “sustained a skull fracture from a previous incident approximately two years ago.”

"Of course we were both wrong and I understand that," Newcomb said, adding, "I understand where ya’ll are coming from.”  

As her daughter is being throttled by a larger girl, Newcomb can be heard at one point yelling to her child, “Don’t fucking stop.” Later in the video, apparently serving as her offspring’s corner man, Newcomb advises, “Punch her in the fucking body.”

Newcomb can also be seen at the clip’s outset, arriving with her daughter’s entourage as the teen's opponent bounced about in preparation for the fight.

Comments (132)

It is from crowds such as these that republicans are born...what you see here are those strong family values that the bible thumping right is always tiring to force down the next guy's throat!
Ok for everyone on here not all people form Fl are white trash. I go to this shool and neither girls in this video are rednecks or white trash. This video should of never got out in the first place, everyones blowing it way out of proportion fights like these happen all the time, only this one ended up on the news.
Holy hell. I need to rewind, back to a time when these uneducated teens will not be entering society anytime soon.
Seriously, you're in high school?!? For the love of God, please learn how to speak and write the English language correctly before you graduate.
..."fights like these happen all the time..." That makes you and everyone involved white trash! That's the point. Civilized people have more class than you. Get it?
Harry has anyone told you today that you are a pompous assh_le? Perhaps your propensity for self elevation makes you white trash?
Better to remain silent and be thought white trash than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Unfortunately nobody thought to bring an AK or AR and just remove all of this trash from the gene-pool. Maybe we'll get lucky next time...
lolololololololol ...it's Bush's fault!
It is very interesting to watch the lower classes in their recreation. I'd think the kids would spend more time studying. That's OK. I can hire them someday to work for me at minimum wage. Trailer-park white trash, indeed.