Missouri mom Michelle Audo, 48, is recovering from a beating she received from two teen bullies who went to their house with the intention of fighting her 16-year-old daughter.
Audo incurred a broken nose, two black eyes and a concussion after the teen girls, who are 13 and 14 years old, threw punches at her. The incident happened late at night on Saturday, May 14, while the Audo family was already resting in bed.
According to the mom, the group of teen bullies drove by their house at around 10:30 p.m. and called out to her daughter from the driveway. Audo went down to tell the girls to leave their property but they became more aggressive.
When Audo said that her daughter isn't coming out, the teen bullies threatened that they will come in and get her. When she prevented the girls from going inside, that's when two girls jump out of the car and punched the mom, per the Kansas City Star.
Teen Bullies Said Mom Hit First
Audo's other daughter, 18, as well as her husband, tried to help by pulling the attackers away from her. The father also used a cane to knock down one of the girls.
Though the attackers eventually left and Audo filed a police report, the 18-year-old daughter learned that the harassment of her sister continued on social media. The older sister was able to take screenshots of Snapchat stories posted by one of the teen bullies, which had captions alluding to their mother getting some serious beating.
Audo eventually learned that one of the girls who attacked her was dating a boy that was friends with her 16-year-old. Speaking with the New York Post, Audo said that the teenagers decided they can't like her daughter based on this fact.
The investigators were able to track down some of the girls involved in the attack. One of them told the cops that it was Audo who tried to hit them first when she came to the side of the car and started to swing at them.
The girls defended that they were retaliating. The teenager also said she didn't report the incident to the police, if she felt that the mom was first to assault them, because she didn't want to land in trouble.
Teen Bullies to be Tried in Family Court
The local police's Community Youth Outreach division is investigating the attack. The mom believes that the girls who beat her need to "pay the consequences" of their actions. They must also be aware that they cannot come back to attack again or do the same thing to somebody else.
Police Chief Bob Muenz said that the case may likely be shifted from juvenile court to family court, where they are set to face a judge, per Yahoo! News. Meanwhile, Audo also said that none of the parents tried to contact her and this surprised her because an adult should acknowledge what their children did.
"The lack of any action [from the parents] is telling," the mother said.
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