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The father now faces assault charges, police said.
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A father boarded a school bus with his 6-year-old daughter and instructed her to repeatedly punch one of her classmates, Missouri authorities say.
Maurice Fox pushed past the Ferguson-Florissant School District bus driver Oct. 9 with his daughter, then he pointed to a seat where a 7-year-old girl was sitting, according to a criminal complaint.
“Do what I told you to do,” Fox is accused of telling his daughter, who the Ferguson Police Department said began to punch her classmate in the head.
On two occasions when his daughter stopped the attack, Fox told her to do it “again,” authorities said. Both times, the girl continued punching her classmate, according to the complaint.
“I want her crying,” Fox told his daughter, police said.
Fox and his daughter then left the bus, but authorities said the attack was caught on video.
“Student and staff safety is always our top priority, and we will not tolerate anything that compromises their safety,” the school district said in a statement to KMOV. “School buses are an extension of the school campus. Trespassing on a school bus and engaging in the behavior described in this incident are completely unacceptable.”
According to the court records, Fox was charged with first-degree harassment, trespassing of a school bus and two counts of fourth-degree assault.
More charges are possible, St. Louis County Prosecutor Melissa Price Smith said in a statement to KSDK.
“We cannot have adults getting on school buses and ordering a child to assault another one,” she told the station.
Ferguson is a northwest suburb of St. Louis.
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