10-Year-Old Girl Attacks Florida Teacher For Confiscating Candy

I hope they get the girl the needed help that she needs. It is obvious that she needs help not jail. It is also obvious that her outburst was not about the candy. What did that candy represent to her? What made her respond so violently, so quickly? These are the real questions that need to answered.

After teacher Kelly Sanchez confiscated Halloween candy from a 10-year-old 5th grader at Zellwood Elementary school, the student allegedly attacked and threatened to kill her, NBC Miami reports.

The girl was arrested last Tuesday and charged with felony battery.

When a reporter from WFTV asked the child's mother, Sebrina Bryant, if she thinks her daughter should have been arrested, she responded passionately.

"No. No. No," she told the station. "I was shocked, devastated."

When the station's reporter asked the girl to describe the attack, the girl only admitted to a small temper tantrum.

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