Noel, who goes by TikTok handle @curlsgreeneyes, shared how she got a restraining order for standing up to her daughter’s bully.
When her 10-year-old daughter returned home from school one day with bruises, Noel didn’t think much about it because the girl told her that she simply fell in the playground.
However, two days later, Noel said that her “mommy senses started tingling” when she discovered her little daughter had even more bruises from “falling off the swing”.
In a now-viral TikTok clip, Noel explained how she called the school to check in with her daughter’s teacher but she didn’t notice anything unusual.
“We did notice that around the house, her behavior and her attitude started changing,” Noel told her TikTok followers. “The following week, she goes to school and comes home with a BLACK EYE.”
When Noel asked her daughter what had happened, she claimed it was the swing once again that had hit her in the face.
This time, Noel did not believe that the swing caused the black eye, so she decided to have her own investigation.
The following day, Noel’s daughter accidentally left her lunchbox at home which gave her the excuse to bring it into the school.
When Noel reached the classroom, she said that she overheard a little boy threatening her daughter.
“[He told her], ‘I want to see your dead body on the ground,” Noel said. “I want to see blood pouring from your body.”
Noel was horrified so she rushed over to interrupt the bully and told him to sit down – to which the bully allegedly replied “make me”.
Unsurprisingly, Noel did not rush off straight away and stayed at the school until break time.
“I found out that this kid had basically been abusing my daughter,” Noel said. “The black eye had come from him slamming his lunchbox into her face.”
Noel also discovered that other parents had previously made a petition to have the boy dismissed from the class which the school ignored.
Noel said she approached the headteacher to confront the situation.
“I asked him three days in a row,” Noel said. “Did you handle it?”
However, the mom claims that the headteacher kept ignoring her and did not do anything to stop the bullying.
At this point, Noel is increasingly concerned for her daughter’s welfare at school and she wasn’t alone.
“At the end of the week, another parent approached me and said this kid cornered his daughter in the bathroom and she was terrified,” Noel said. “So you know this is only going to end up being something horrific.”
In an attempt to protect her daughter, Noel then decided to take matters into her own hands and called the police to report on the boy.
Noel said that after the police arrived at her house and she explained the situation, Noel said that ‘their recommendation was to get a restraining order.’
“I was like, ‘what?’ And the cop said, ‘oh yeah – we have teachers who get restraining orders against students,” Noel said.
“At this point, it was either going to be my daughter or this kid,” Noel added. “So I went to court in the morning and by the afternoon, I had a restraining order.”
“No one wants to do that to a 10-year-old child, but this was not a 10-year-old child.”
Noel then returned to the head teacher’s office to ask for an update about the matter.
When the headteacher asked to think about the bully’s parents, Noel said “every bad word [she] could think of came out of [her] mouth” as she couldn’t care what they thought.
The restraining order worked to have the boy removed from the school, and once it had been put in place, Noel said that other parents came forward with their own stories about the bully.
Noel claims that the boy was killing small animals and leaving their bodies around the school and if other kids told the teachers, he allegedly threatened to kill them too.
Now that her daughter is grown up, Noel said that she kept tabs on the bully and wasn’t surprised to find out he’s currently in prison.
“[He’s done] everything from domestic violence to assault to robbery,” she claimed.
Noel shared her story after seeing another TikTok video about a mother who removed her daughter from daycare after seeing worrying signs of bullying.
“The point is, your kids will speak to you without actually speaking to you,” Noel said. “You better listen.”