School director was ‘ringleader’ of child fight club
Mary Tracy Morrison, a school director in Arkansas, was sentenced to 30 days in jail and nine years of probation after pleading guilty to child abuse charges. She was accused of orchestrating a child fight club at The Delta Institute for the Developing Brain, where students were directed to physically assault a peer. Morrison is banned from working with children and must surrender her professional licenses.
- ▪Mary Tracy Morrison pleaded guilty to one count of permitting child abuse and four counts of contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile.
- ▪Video evidence showed Morrison instructing students to surround and hit a child while she verbally berated them.
- ▪Morrison told the victim to apologize and instructed students not to discuss the incident, which lasted 30 minutes and included assaults on private areas.
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US News School director was ‘ringleader’ of child fight club By Landon Mion, Fox News Published May 5, 2026, 9:27 a.m. ET Originally Published by: Judge apologizes to alleged would-be Trump assassin, drags Jan 6 suspects Man allegedly opens fire on Secret Service near White House as child injured Police dog follows his nose to find missing autistic teen screaming for help An Arkansas school director was sentenced to 30 days in jail, 120 days of house arrest with electronic monitoring and nine years of probation after prosecutors accused her of being the “ringleader” of a makeshift child fight club.
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