Florida Mom Coaches Daughter In Raucous Street Fight Video

DUNDEE, FL — A 36-year-old Florida mother is facing criminal charges after she was captured on video shouting "hit her" and "come on" as her teenage daughter punched it out in a raucous street fight with another girl.

Giselle Reyes Felix was charged with child abuse and contributing to the delinquency of a minor over the Nov. 29 fight while her 16-year-old daughter was charged with criminal misdemeanor battery.

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Neither of the two girls were seriously injured in the fight that began as the 17-year-old victim had just gotten off a school bus. She heard a car horn and saw a car quickly approaching her. Felix' daughter allegedly yelled at the victim and then attacked her as her mother and the person who captured the fight on video piled out of the vehicle to watch.

"This is a parent. I want to say, 'Giselle what are you thinking girl? Are you just nuts?'" said an incredulous Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd. "What were you going to do with the video? You were going to wrap it up and give it to your daughter with a set of boxing gloves for Christmas?"

Judd said Felix also discouraged a neighbor from breaking up the fight as she coached her daughter on her fighting technique.

"This all started because apparently her daughter didn't get invited to a party that the victim was having," Judd said. "She arrived anyway, and they asked her to leave because she wasn't invited to the party."

The sheriff said that the woman who captured the incident on video would not be charged. He said Felix and her daughter are fortunate the victim was not hurt.

"When the victim fell on her back, the 16-year-old stomped on her head multiple times with her feet," he said. "A Good Samaritan was able to stop the fight temporarily, but Ms. Felix encouraged the 16-year-old to again attack the other girl."

The names of the two girls were not released because of their ages. The incident occurred near the victim's home in the Kissimmee/Polk area.

"I'm just shocked. I mean Moms are not supposed to do that," Judd added. "When you have kids, don't take them to the street to fight with the neighbors. It's not a good thing."

Video and photo courtesy Polk County Sheriff's Office