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Alleged School Bus Violence Leads To Arrest

POMPANO BEACH (CBS4) - A Pompano Beach woman is facing child abuse charges after she allegedly got on a Broward County school bus and slapped another child.

According to the Broward County Sheriff's Office, Toccara Daniels, 27, knocked on the door of school bus #202114 and when the bus driver opened the door, she immediately started asking who slapped her child.

BSO said that the bus driver told Daniels that she was not allowed to board the bus. But, according to the arrest report, Daniels got on the bus and the child who allegedly slapped her child was pointed out.

It was at this point that BSO said that Daniels walked up to the alleged slapper and "back handed (with great force) his (the victim's) left hand out of his mouth and stated 'don't you put your hands on my child.'"

BSO said Daniels then turned to leave the bus and looked at a camera that was recording everything happening on the bus and said, "I don't give a (expletive)."

Daniels faces charges including battery, child abuse, operating a vehicle without a valid driver's license, and violation of probation.

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