Texas Woman Arrested After Viral Video Shows Her Beating High School Student

Police have arrested a Texas mother Tuesday after a video went viral on social media, where she was seen brutally beating up a teenage girl at a high school in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Corpus Christie Independent School District Police arrested Mary Alice Hernandez, 34, and charged her with assault for causing bodily injury after the disturbing footage filmed in the courtyard of Miller High School went viral, according to the Corpus Christi Caller Times.

The video, which was posted by the victim's mother Julie Pinon on her Facebook account on Oct. 17, showed the suspect repeatedly striking a student in the head before fleeing from the scene.

The attack lasted about 15 seconds, as the teen appeared to be seemingly powerless to fight back against the woman as she continuously punched and pummeled her about the head. At one point in the video, the teen falls and the woman continues to beat her up. Following which she eventually runs away leaving the girl on the ground.

The teen’s mother wrote in a Facebook post claiming it was her daughter who was beaten up in the footage and said the fight came about because the attacker's own teenage daughter had fought Pinon's child in the past, Corpus Christi Caller Times reported after the video surfaced last week.

"My daughter didn't want to hit her because she didn't want to disrespect her since she's an older woman," Pinon wrote in the Facebook post along with the video, which has since received over 200,000 views.

The arrest came following the victim's mother's plea in the Facebook post to help track the woman who attacked her daughter. "Please help me find this lady," Pinon began the post.

Pinon also updated the post later and explained the incidents that led to the fight. She wrote that a male classmate of her daughter's had spread a "disgusting rumor" about her, and when Pinon's daughter confronted the guy, he asked Hernandez's daughter to come forward and beat her up.

The girl showed up with her mother Hernandez last Monday, during volleyball practice and the two girls reportedly fought.

According to Pinon's Facebook post, her daughter won the fight, however, Hernandez "apparently couldn’t handle the defeat and decided to attack my daughter." Pinon wrote that her daughter did not fight back because the woman was older and also "because the woman clearly had an entourage that would have, without a doubt, hurt my daughter even worse."

Hernandez was taken into custody on Tuesday at Nueces County Jail in Texas, where she is being held on a $25,000 bond, New York Daily News reported.

A similar incident took place in September this year when a student’s parent had beaten up another student at Ruskin High School in Kansas City. The student was said to have been critically injured and was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital. The accused parent and the other student were both taken into custody after the incident, The Kansas City Star reported at the time.