An angry mother who took to Facebook to tell her son off for bullying has been forced to defend herself - after people began criticising her when the post went viral.
Terri Day Evans, 30, was so horrified when 12-year-old son Jacob stamped on a girl's foot so hard he broke her shoe she decided to publicly shame him on the social network.
Using the hashtag #Iwillnothaveabullyinmyhouse, she revealed she would be making Jacob use his birthday money to buy the girl new shoes and a bunch of flowers by way of an apology.
Horrified: Mum Terri Day Evans took to Facebook to shame her son after he stamped on another pupil's foot at school - and the post went viral
'Absolutely disgusted that my 12 year old son saw fit to purposefully tread on a new girls foot at school and twist his foot with such force it broke her brand new shoes (causing the heel) to snap,' Ms Evans, from Oswestry, Shropshire, wrote.
‘I’ll tell you something Jacob, if you so much as breath in her or anyone’s direction in a bullying manner I will personally hand you over to their parents for every demeaning chore they see fit for as long as they do… kiss goodbye to your birthday money as you will be buying the girl a new pair of shoes and a bunch of flowers! #iwillnothaveabullyinmyhouse.'
But the young mother ended up explaining her actions after the post got more than 55,000 likes - and a number of negative comments.
According to the Metro, Alison Kyle wrote: ‘Why extend the humiliation? Your poor son. This will haunt him forever. A mistake at 12, online now for all to see.’
Michael Crowley wrote: ‘This is an incredibly dangerous thing to do to any child… What is even more disturbing are the huge numbers on here who cannot even see the dangers of what she has done.’
Ms Evans then added a clarification to her post, explaining she had spoken to her son before posting the message - and she had tagged him originally to show 'his actions have consequences, he is not big, clever, hard or funny'.
Defence: But some questioned whether or not it was a good decision, and she was forced to explain herself
After the post went viral, she detagged him.
But this didn't stop people questioning what she had done.
Ms Evans added: ‘I don’t much care who doesn’t agree with my parenting style, my son humiliated and embarrassed a girl, regardless of his reasoning (which was he didn’t expect to break the shoe he just thought she may step out of it or stumble) that little girl still cried, for anyone’s knowledge that girl may have left her old school because she was being bullied… then imagine how much worse my son’s ridiculous act would have made her feel.'
She concluded: 'I am wholly confident this was a single occurrence which won’t be repeated.'
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