Mississippi Woman Accused of Assaulting Teacher

(Gulfport, Mississippi) A 26-year-old local woman, Whitney LaShae Dawson, has been accused of attacking a teacher at her child's Head Start center.

Dawson was charged and jailed with bond set at $25,000.

Dawson of Gulfport was charged with simple assault on a teacher after police say she arrived at Isaiah Fredericks Head Start on Jackson Street, angry because the teacher's assistant would not allow her child to leave with an "unfamiliar individual" at a bus stop.

Police say that during a conversation near the bus stop, Dawson is accused of punching the teacher's assistant multiple times and pulling her hair before removing her child from the bus and leaving the scene.

Cat fight, eh?