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Bluffs woman won’t face jail time for encouraging a fight & hitting a kid

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May 15th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

A judge in Pottawattamie County has given a suspended sentence to a woman who encouraged her son to fight another boy, and then hit the other child when her son was being hit. The incident appeared in a video on the internet. The Daily NonPareil says 31-year old Alisha Hazen, of Council Bluffs was arrested in December, on suspicion of felony child endangerment, serious assault and contributing to the delinquency of a minor for her alleged involvement in a fight that took place at Kreft Elementary School in November. She plead guilty on Tuesday, to simple assault and aggravated misdemeanor child endangerment.

The paper says Fourth District Chief Judge Jeffrey Larson accepted Hazen’s plea agreement in the case, but denied her request for a deferred judgment in the matter. A deferred judgment would have wiped the convictions off Hazen’s record had she successfully completed probation. Larson ordered Hazen to serve a two-year supervised probation and suspended the possible 25-month prison sentence.

According to court records, Hazen followed her 13-year old son from their residence to the school on Nov. 19th, and encouraged the boy to fight with a 12-year old boy. Witnesses said Hazen yelled out instructions to her son to pull the other boys’  hair and to punch him. Witnesses said Hazen didn’t attempt to break up the fight until her son was on the ground being struck in the face and the head. At that point, Hazen pulled the younger child off her son and punched the 12-year-old in the face.