VERO BEACH — The mother of an elementary school student was arrested after allegedly accusing the school of poisoning her child, then biting a secretary and a sheriff’s deputy.
Sheila De Jesus, 40, faces charges of misdemeanor battery, and misdemeanor resisting arrest without violence, according to the arrest report.
On Wednesday at 3:43 p.m., authorities responded to Vero Beach Elementary School, according to the affidavit. One of the students was ill, and a school secretary called the child’s mother, De Jesus, to ask her to come and pick up her child.
De Jesus could not leave work at that time, and her mother also could not pick up the student. But De Jesus cursed the secretary and told her the school was “poisoning her daughter, making her daughter throw up and that it was the school’s fault,” according to the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office.
When De Jesus arrived at the end of the day for pick-up, she bypassed the barrier of the front desk and began to hit the secretary, according to authorities. She held the victim by her hair and continued to hit her in the back of the head and face. She also allegedly bit the victim in the left thigh and dug her nail into her right arm.
School staff had to separate both De Jesus and the victim, according to the report. When a deputy was trying to take De Jesus into custody, she became combative, pulled her hands away, and also allegedly bit the deputy. She received a trespass warning from the school.
De Jesus is being held in lieu of $3,000 bond.
