Utah mom accused of kidnapping her son’s alleged bully to force him to apologize

This is sounds like something Lois from Malcolm In The Middle would do.

Well, she didn't pull an Uncle Buck.

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You know, crazy moms might just be the solution to this whole bully thing...

LoL Mom: "When we get home, you're gonna say you're sorry and that you like my kid, and you better mean it."

I understand the motivation but that's like bringing a machine gun to a fist fight. 

Utah mommas don't play.

I get it, bullying can have devastating impacts, but kidnapping should have been like the third step 

Um there's like a dozen other options beyond kidnapping I think...

It's illegal and wrong but I respect the energy. Bully(allegedly) had it coming.

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It's wild the number of people who seem to think this is cool. We don't even know what this "bullying" consisted of. Kids generally aren't reliable narrators and you can't just take them at their word. A lot of bullies like to play the victim when confronted by adults, so you could end up with a situation where the real bully was YOUR kid and you just helped by further terrorizing his victim. This is not okay because there's no way to ensure it doesn't go horrifically wrong. Be an adult and talk to the other kids parents, try to understand the situation. You don't grab a kid off the street and threaten to kill him based solely on the word of your kid. Absolutely deranged.

When keeping it real goes wrong…

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the kid being raised by the actual felonious psychopath probably is not actually being bullied so much as excluded socially for unacceptable behaviors learned at home. 

I was an 8-year-old bully, and the parents did this to me. They grabbed me, pulled me into their house, pinned me down on their living room carpet, and yelled at me. It worked, but now as a parent 40+ years later, I still wouldn't recommend it. (Or the bullying of course.)

>The incident caused the boy to suffer "serious emotional distress" and "high anxiety" and has forced him to "significantly" alter his daily routines, according to the complaint. Yeah I would expect a bully to be "distressed" by being forced to stop bullying. I'm on mom's side here, bully disciplined, her own child protected. Hopefully she gets a sympathetic judge/jury

So like now what lady? Jailtime for a lesson the kid probably won't lear. She pretty much just opened up the door for retaliation from the bully's parents. Would I disappointed in my kid for bullying? Yes! However if you kidnapped my kid as some of lessons then I'm finding you with full malicious intent and she only has herself to blame.

Apache helicopter mom.

>The defendant was driving around looking for KB wanting to confront him about bullying her child," it says. "When the defendant found KB she stopped her vehicle in front of KB’s bike and made KB get into her vehicle." She then drove him to her home without his parents' knowledge or permission, made him apologize to her son and threatened to have her husband "beat up" the boy, the complaint says.Tufuga told him he was "lucky" she did not run over his bike when she found him riding it, according to the complaint... Damn, over-react much lady? How about a visit with the offender's parents and a conversation - or would that make too much sense in today's world. edit: I guess I'm wrong, people think kidnapping an 11 year old, taking him to your home and threatening him with violence is the way to go. Interesting.

“Mom, there’s this bully at school…” “We have Bully at home…”

Had a crazy mom follow me home and into my house to force me to confess and apologize for looking at p*** with her son. We were in middle school and the dude started looking at it first while I was over. Mustve blamed me, friendship ended but at the time I didnt realize just how batshit crazy this mom was.

This is wild because I grew up there and I was kidnapped by a mom for bullying her kid in a school bus. I could have got her ass in so much trouble but was too timid and ashamed to do anything. That said, I was not simply a bully and her son literally broke my arm and it was far more complicated of a situation than she knew or wanted to admit.

I'm gonna show my kid Bully is wrong.... by being a bully 🙄

The 11y/o and his parents should sue her for therapy costs. She assumed her child was 100% accurate but nothing in the article verifies ye accuracy of the complaint. There are much better ways to have handled that

Bet he thinks twice next time.

Apart from the mother being charged with the alleged offence, this should be in UpliftingNews.

And here I am just contacting the school…

I get people saying the mother went too far and she should have gone to the cops or the teachers. I've seen multiple times that cops and teachers will only get involved if the bullying is physical. the kid being bullied has autism. There are so many ways to bully an autistic kid without touching them. How about moving really sporadically right outside the line of their vision? Or how about make a noise that most of us wouldn't care about, but drives them up a f****** wall? If that's what a kid is doing to be a bully, the teachers and cops will at most wag a finger. I'm not defending the mother, especially after she [allegedly threaten to have her husband beat the boy up.](https://www.unilad.com/news/us-news/utah-mom-charged-kidnapped-sons-bully-457958-20260324) All I'm saying is going to the Cops or teachers probably wouldn't have done anything.

Hey. Gotta give credit. Love an active parent in this generation of gentle parenting.

Ah yes, True Detective S2 lite.

Not right, but I understand the impulse.

No crime committed but still sentence the bully’s parents to community service