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NAPLES A 26-year-old mother was jailed Monday afternoon after Collier County sheriff’s deputies say she grabbed the neck of a girl at her childrens’ school, and then instructed her three children to attack the girl.
Teshane Butler, 601 Delaware Ave. W., Unit E8, Immokalee, was charged with trespassing on school grounds and battery.
On Monday morning Butler entered the cafeteria at Pinecrest Elementary School, without permission, to eat breakfast with her daughters, who are in second grade, kindergarten and pre-kindergarten, according to Sheriff’s Office reports. Butler frequently enters school grounds without permission and disregards school procedures, reports said.
After breakfast, while walking her two older daughters to class, Butler encountered a sixth grade student who was assigned to safety patrol outside a teacher’s room.
Butler’s oldest daughter told deputies that her mother was angry at the sixth grader for taking her photograph last week, authorities said.
Butler grabbed the sixth grade girl by her neck and told her oldest daughter to kick her. She then told her youngest daughter to get behind the sixth grader, take her backpack, and find her camera, reports said.
While the attack proceeded, Butler’s other daughter stood by and yelled profanities at the sixth grader, the Sheriff’s Office reported.








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Buckwheat, fourth generation female. O'tay.
#1 Posted by ZhuZhu on October 7, 2008 at 8:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I don't think this one can be deported but she can be jailed for a long time.
#2 Posted by emmagee_dealer on October 7, 2008 at 8:42 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I certainly hope that the 6th grader is ok after such a horrible attack.
If this mother has been known to circumvent the rules of the school then it should have been made known to every adult on that campus to alert the principal and the authorities to have her removed.
#3 Posted by teachurkids on October 7, 2008 at 9:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)
teachurkids, the schools leave the safety of children up to safety patrols who are kids themselves. It's ridiculous to see fifth graders telling little kids what to do. Safety patrols used to be the kids in the crosswalks and outside at the front of the school raising the flags each day.
As budget cuts take over, safety patrols are replacing adults in schools here to keep kids safe.
There's very little supervision at CCPS outside of classroom environments. High schools with cameras are the lucky ones.
This is a horrible act, and one that should have been stopped if an ADULT was available to help this student.
#4 Posted by beetlejuice on October 7, 2008 at 9:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Since when do parents go in and have breakfast at the school with their children?
The school should have called the police the first time she came on school grounds without permission!
#5 Posted by streetrodder on October 7, 2008 at 10:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)
She's not supposed to be on the school grounds, but she comes into the cafeteria anyway and sits down to eat with her kids. How long was she there? 20 minutes maybe-and nobody notices her or kicks her out. Something is going on there that's not being reported.
#6 Posted by maskun on October 7, 2008 at 10:34 p.m. (Suggest removal)
This person is not a mother by any meaning of the word. All she is, is a baby factory who more likely than not, has no idea who the daddy is, and couldn't care less. Her IQ would border that of a ripe avacado. This the classic product of the Ghetto, nothing more, nothing less. Gimmie, gimmie is her favorite word.
#7 Posted by cit10driver on October 7, 2008 at 10:37 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Looks like the Security at that school needs to be investigated. Or has thompson farmed that out also for the cheapest bid?
#8 Posted by CaptKidd on October 7, 2008 at 10:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I wish my mother came to school and attacked my peers, I think I was neglected.
#9 Posted by Jonwurd on October 8, 2008 at 12:59 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Sounds like such a lovely family.
#10 Posted by bigern1977 on October 8, 2008 at 3:55 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Were feeding her why?
#11 Posted by Native on October 8, 2008 at 5:38 a.m. (Suggest removal)
#4 - I disagree with your blanket statement about patrols. I don't think they were being used inappropriately at Pinecrest or are at any other school. If they are trained properly (to report suspicious activities to an adult) and positioned appropriately (with an adult within 20 feet or so) then they can be effective. They can serve as role models for their peers.
The staff should have been warned about this woman and on the look out for her. There is no way you can tell me that not one adult saw her have breakfast with her kids. It should have been dealt with then.
#12 Posted by teachurkids on October 8, 2008 at 6:36 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I would bet that she's going to vote for Barack Hussein Obama!
#13 Posted by streetrodder on October 8, 2008 at 6:44 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Sounds like a severe mental health issue. No worries. Obama will make sure that we care for her and her children.
#14 Posted by v2q903 on October 8, 2008 at 6:49 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I hope she gets some serious time. No probation. And more important, Lets take those kids away from that family and put them in a safe place before its too late.
#15 Posted by ricky369 on October 8, 2008 at 6:56 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I agree with teachurkids that someone should have stopped this woman a long time ago. It makes no sense that the "reports stated" that this woman breaks the rules "frequently" and no one does anything about it until there's a problem. Furthermore, they should look into her background. I'll BET that she's a single parent who DOESN'T WORK and is living off of the government. I know that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover but hey when it looks like it and smells like it...you get the idea. I vote we drug test her too.
#16 Posted by charlietuna82 on October 8, 2008 at 7:01 a.m. (Suggest removal)
deport her back to haiti????
#17 Posted by naples537 on October 8, 2008 at 7:01 a.m. (Suggest removal)
What's up with a kindergartner cussing out a sixth-grader? How about a charge of neglect with that happening?????
#18 Posted by mothernature on October 8, 2008 at 7:18 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I THOUGHT THAT THE SCHOOLS HAD BETTER SECURITY THAN THIS?? IF THIS PERSON WAS ABLE TO GET HER HANDS ON A STUDENT & GO INTO A CAFETERIA FILLED WITH STUDENTS. THEN THIS SCHOOL HAS A HUGE PROBLEM WITH SECURITY & SAFETY!!! I AM GLAD SHE DIDN'T HAVE A GUN WITH HER THIS TIME.....
#19 Posted by MrMeToo on October 8, 2008 at 7:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Ah, the next generation... of welfare sucking cretins. Can I offer to pay to have her tubes tied?
#20 Posted by squall_line on October 8, 2008 at 7:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Teshane, McCain's lst choice for Secretary of State.
#21 Posted by thelight on October 8, 2008 at 8:09 a.m. (Suggest removal)
The envelope please........
And the winner of Mother of the Year goes to.........
Teshane Butler for being such a great role model, teaching her brood how to be perfect little ladies and how to teat other people in life.
Tell her what she's won.
She's won a resting stay at the gray bar resort. While there Teshane will be served 3 wonderful meals a day, be able to relax in the yard with the other guests, take college courses, earn her GED, attend the fitness center and as well as learn a new trade all at the expense of you the tax payer. And her children have won a wonderful life being raised in foster care by DCS.
#22 Posted by TSOL on October 8, 2008 at 8:10 a.m. (Suggest removal)
#8/#20 are dead on, why is this not being addressed? That particular principal if he/she had prior knowledge of this issue and took no steps to stop this woman and I use the term loosely, should be fired and so should Thompson if this is how he secures the schools, there is a really big underlying problem here that shouldn't be dismissed.
#23 Posted by CaptSam on October 8, 2008 at 8:24 a.m. (Suggest removal)
This school, as well as other schools are loosing thier security and safety to budget cuts. School counselors are now being used to load and unload buses instead of directing students on how to not end up like this woman. It's a sign of the times and its scary.
#24 Posted by nativeone on October 8, 2008 at 8:42 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Maybe we can outsource security? Has Thompson looked at firing our fifth graders and replacing them with his fifth graders from back where? Of course I don't expect them do to this for free; I would expect them to command six-figure salaries. Don't worry about the Board, they'll bend over and grab their ankles like they do every time.
#25 Posted by squall_line on October 8, 2008 at 8:49 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Thompson will blow this off also and this incredibly incompetent board won't question him, why was the YRD Deputy not filing a trespass warning on this woman if she was a known problem? If I were the parents of the child who was attacked, I'd be standing on Thompson's desk right about now....
#26 Posted by CaptSam on October 8, 2008 at 8:59 a.m. (Suggest removal)
oh, CaptSam, she's not going to Thompson's desk...she's standing in front of John Morgan, or Hollander, or Berry Day & McFee...
"So, CCPS Reprsentative, you knew this woman constantly ignored your policies, yet you still allowed her to do so..."
"um, yes. Is that bad?"
#27 Posted by squall_line on October 8, 2008 at 9:02 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I hope you are right squall_line, I hope the parents do not get pressured into dropping it, I wouldn't......
#28 Posted by CaptSam on October 8, 2008 at 9:05 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I'M SO GLAD TO SEE MY CHILD IS SO SAFE AT SCHOOL. WHAT THE HECK ARE WE PAYING THESE PEOPLE FOR. WHY ARE THERE PHYSCO'S RUNNING AROUND WITH OUR KIDS!?!?!?!
#29 Posted by orange469 on October 8, 2008 at 9:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)
my sixth grade daughter would have WORKED this woman over. i feel bad for the sixth grader in this attack. however, if butwheat tried to tussle with my little monster, i would have felt bad for butwheat.
people- teach your children to never attack, but to protect themselves from the filth of the earth that is this POS. it is called self defense, and it should be taught from a very young age. you would be surprised to see some of these kids defend themselves. butwheat needs a serious beatdown from the sixth graders mother...
#30 Posted by maniacinpink on October 8, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I'll bet, The family was eating a FREE breakfast together before school... How nice!
#31 Posted by DOBERMAN on October 8, 2008 at 10:46 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I bet she is voting for OBAMA!
#32 Posted by Hendry on October 8, 2008 at 10:48 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Looks like sista gangsta had a bad hair day. DCF is gonna be gettin bussy on her.
#33 Posted by RedRyder on October 8, 2008 at 11:08 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Another Obama voter
#34 Posted by ProAveMaria on October 8, 2008 at 11:29 a.m. (Suggest removal)
That's right Doberman all Immokalee eats for free at the schools.
#35 Posted by hadenuf on October 8, 2008 at 11:34 a.m. (Suggest removal)
hadenuf
Not all Immokalee eats for free! I pay for my children to eat breakfast & lunch!!
#36 Posted by GOINDIANS08 on October 8, 2008 at 11:43 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Post#37- IN JAIL EATING FOR FREE?
#37 Posted by upnorth on October 8, 2008 at 11:44 a.m. (Suggest removal)
As I recall, Pinecrest is undergoing renovations, so enforcing security would be quite a bit more difficult. And the Cafeteria is located at the front of the school near the street.
That being said, I'm wondering why the YRD didn't chain her up after the second time she pulled this stunt?
#38 Posted by Spetsnaz on October 8, 2008 at 11:48 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I bet she can't spell vote, much less Obama.
#39 Posted by nplsforyrs on October 8, 2008 at 12:07 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Liestopper, maybe instead of breeding, she could get a job and start feeding.
#40 Posted by hadenuf on October 8, 2008 at 12:37 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The melting pot has sprung a leak!!!
#41 Posted by Dollard on October 8, 2008 at 12:49 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Liestarter:
Please tell me why I should have to pay for this POS and her offspring's free food? My wife and I have worked very hard to get where we are and be able to take care of our family why in the world should I take care of her?
My mother and father got divorced when I was very young. My mother didn't receive much in the way of child support so she went to work while working she put herself through college. Was it tough it sure was but not once did she eve expect a hand out like so many people do today. Why is it always up to society to take care of those who won't take care of themselves? Generations have been conditioned to think that they don't have to do for themselves as the good old govt. will come ridding in to save them.
This is what is wrong with our country everyone thinks they are owed something for nothing.
#42 Posted by TSOL on October 8, 2008 at 2:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)
These kids can get all the free meals you want them to LieStopper but the only "education" they are receiving is from their walking womb delivery system.
The only thing this "mother" is teaching her offspring is that she and they don't have to listen to rules and if they don't like it they can just beat people up.
In kindergarden and cussing up a storm, these kids have no future as long as her "mother" is her role model.
That's ok, the world needs ditch diggers too.
#43 Posted by floridasteel on October 8, 2008 at 3:03 p.m. (Suggest removal)
This incident illustrates that there is still risk to our schools. What I find alarming is that this individual reportedly was known to violate access to the schools. When spotted on campus, should she not have been promptly escorted off campus?
She could have been armed or worse. The schools need to wake up NOW before we have an incident like the one in Russia a number of years ago. CCSO can only be in so many places at once. Why weren't the schools' security protocols initiated?
#44 Posted by BlueTonguedVole on October 8, 2008 at 3:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)
What I am saying Lie is that as long as this "mother" continues to instill her children with her "values" the cycle will continue.
Hopefully now that she has been arrested something will change.
Sadly we all know that it won't.
#45 Posted by floridasteel on October 8, 2008 at 4:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)
TSOL don;t make this a free food issue.
ANYONE can go and eat breakfast at CCPS....there's a small charge for bacon and eggs.
Then there are kids who need these breakfasts, because their families are paid minimally to put your stupid tomatoes into you freakin burrito at TACO BELL.
So as U eat your burrito, think about all the migrant families who have to work in fields in Immokalee, and deal with poor working conditions, and have children who need a decent meal in order to SURVIVE.
But U will WHA WHA WHA WHA WHA...without EVER knowing what the families of Immokalee face every day.
Although, there's no excuse for psycho Momma!
But kids who are safety patrols, need to stop, as they can't keep children safe here. Let them raise a flag, and that's all folks.
Meanwhile, children are VICTIMS to psychos as safety patrols here DON'T WORK!
When will CCPS realize that cutting safety practices at schools due to budget cuts is not the correct idea?
#46 Posted by beetlejuice on October 8, 2008 at 9:24 p.m. (Suggest removal)
beetlejuice, so what you are saying is that once poor and uneducated working as a laborer in fields...that there is no hope? Guess it is good thing my grandparents didn't fall into that trap. My grandfather was poor. He just worked harder and worked smarter. He went back to school.
But then times were different. People didn't have their hands out and feel entitled to everything.
I spent too many days doing field investigations (making visits to homes, institutions, and yes many "poor" communities to feel too sorry for all but the small children.
Some traded putting nutritious food on the table for BIG TVs. Some lived frugally and worked hard to leave tomato field behind. So do you want to pay $7 a tomato so the poor farm worker can have the same standard of living as the folks they watch on TV? Ah, let's just become a nice little socialist country, why not...we are going to be sooner than later...and the Chinese may have more free enterprise then than we do, ironically.
#47 Posted by BlueTonguedVole on October 8, 2008 at 9:43 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Some of the Chinese, BTV. But certainly not all of them.
China has blended the best parts of capitalism and totalitarianism and arrived at a system that should induce cringes in anyone who understands the American concept of liberty. Entire regions are evacuated for nothing more than the profit motives of the politically connected. The execution rate is horrendous, and kept secret. The widescale corruption and tampering of food and medicine has given consumers across the world toxic toys and unsafe food and medicine. Remember the bad dog food, the bad heparin, and the bad milk?
Not taking a thing away from your grandfather, Vole, but I'm assuming that in addition to being diligent and self-disciplined, he also had the benefit of living under a government that placed a higher premium on helping Americans get ahead than the present one does.
And without defending the sorry individual in the story above, I think a look at the statistics and the present economic climate with its litter of Enrons and Bear Stearns and subprime bandits and predatory lenders should persuade us that we're living under an administration today that is tragically indifferent to the plight of anyone not born well off.
That's not an excuse for the sorry creature above. I see plenty of them in my own work and despise their lack of values.
But I also recognize that once they were the tiny babies you did pity, and that obviously our system failed to rescue them from the hell their accident of birth occasioned, or to care about them at all until they became another pest to control.
We can't have it two ways. We practice Christ's teachings about the poor and the weak without regard to coincidental benefits to the unworthy, or we pick a less demanding aspect of "Christianity" and thereby worship the false god that such a selfish choice constitutes.
#48 Posted by elnuestros on October 8, 2008 at 10:42 p.m. (Suggest removal)
She is going on the new Fox Game Show ,"So You Think You're Tougher Than A 6th Grader"
#49 Posted by tapakegger on October 8, 2008 at 11:42 p.m. (Suggest removal)
elnuestros...I agree with you about your take on China...and it DOES send shivers down my spine.
el, be careful about that pesky word "assume". My grandfather's government was unlike the intrusive one we have today. And what makes you think he or any of my family are Christians?
That is the short version of a long post I was going to write, but it says it better.
One more thing...Charity and kindness has been said to begin with people teaching others how to become independent and to think critically, but do we need to instruct people or can they find their own way? Many can and do find their own way despite our recent propensity to reward dependence. Rewarding dependence only enslaves the dependent.
#50 Posted by BlueTonguedVole on October 8, 2008 at 11:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Good points, Vole.
I had no basis for injecting the Christian thoughts, although since you bring it up, I agree that Christ taught independence, not entitlement.
I disagree, though, that the trend toward subsidizing the shiftless is solely the work of bleeding heart liberal politicians. If you "follow the money" you'll usually find powerful economic interests behind most government initiatives. Food stamps, for instance, were promoted heavily by the grocery industry, which didn't make a cent when the government distributed excess commodities to help feed the poor.
And I stand by my point that Roosevelt's New Deal was aimed at rebuilding the country from the ground up. Because of that, FDR was widely derided and hated by, among others, the ancestors of today's president, whose policies toward the poor range from indifference to malign neglect.
Remember "My base. . . the haves and the have-mores."?
It's very hard to "find your way" and break the cycle of poverty when the culture is shifiting toward a small-government model that favors cronyism, separation by demographics and the end to public financing of infrastructure, including education.
Grover Norquist bragged of drowning government in the bathtub. George Bush has helped him do that, in terms of social programs. But what we find when the water is drained, too often, are the bodies of children. We should, as a nation and as a culture, have higher goals for our self-determined selves.
#51 Posted by elnuestros on October 9, 2008 at 6:18 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I didnt think they made black troll dolls, i have only seen white ones.... ever see trilogy of terror ????
#52 Posted by obwon on October 9, 2008 at 9:34 a.m. (Suggest removal)
can you say crackhead jane ?
#53 Posted by firetjm on October 9, 2008 at 11:09 a.m. (Suggest removal)
In response to all the "whys", this happened because the Collier schools can not protect our children. I have to home school my son since his former school stated they could not guarantee his safety from a violent ex, with no visitation rights, who is wanted by the law.
As for all the unrelated "Obama's middle name gripes", get over it. He doesn't care so why should you? Are you that upset your redneck good ol' boy sheriff might get in trouble? The Federal Government now notices this part of the country, so the days of back woods government is coming to an end.
The only reason anyone seems to even use his middle name, is an attempt to invoke fear in the ignorant voters. If you're already voting Democrat, it doesn't matter. If you're intelligent enough to at least be undecided, it won't change your view. It looks to me as if the "He's a Muslim" lie and the "Obama-Osama" rants didn't have the effect that McSame & Failin were going for.
#54 Posted by Cynical1 on October 9, 2008 at 11:51 a.m. (Suggest removal)
homey da clown, never wears a frown......
#55 Posted by obwon on October 10, 2008 at 4:32 a.m. (Suggest removal)
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