Who allowed mother into Miami-Dade school to attack student?

Kady Sewell, 33, accused of striking boy on face, arms with belt

(Miami-Dade Corrections & Rehabilitation/Florida City Police Department)

FLORIDA CITY, Fla. – New details have been released by police about an incident last week at a school in Miami-Dade County involving a mother who allegedly trespassed on school property to attack a student.

According to Kady Sewell’s arrest report, her daughter opened the locked entrance to Bethel Junior Academy in Florida City Thursday morning to allow her mother inside.

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Police said surveillance video shows Sewell, 33, then walking to the cafeteria where the victim, Nehemiah Johnson, 13, was sitting down eating and begin to strike him in the arms and face with a belt, causing a cut to his lip and other injuries.

About 17 other students were present, including one child who clutched his chest in fear as the attack occurred nearby, authorities said.

According to the arrest report, Sewell then walked out of the school and drove away.

Police said Nehemiah told officers that he had been in the bathroom earlier when Sewell’s son began calling him fatso and making fat jokes to him, so he picked him up and dropped him to the ground.

“Stop f***ing hitting my children,” Sewell said before attacking the victim with the belt, according to the report.

Police said Sewell went to the Florida City police station with her legal representation on Saturday and surrendered to authorities.

She faces charges of child abuse, interference at an educational institution and trespassing at a school.

Sewell tried to cover her face as she bonded out of jail Sunday morning and refused to speak with Local 10 News.

Representatives of Bethel Junior Academy have also declined to comment to Local 10 News, but the victim’s mother said they did apologize to her in person. She, however, said she hasn’t heard from them since that apology.


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Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.