Bronx Mom Arrested After Giving Pregnant Daughter Mace To Fight School Bullies

Mom Tracy Morales and daughter Clerissa Loucks

A Bronx mother and daughter were arrested yesterday after it came out that the mother gave the 17-year-old girl pepper spray to use against bullies at her high school. Tracy Morales, 38, is accused of giving her four months pregnant daughter Clerissa Loucks a canister of pepper spray and encouraging her to use it. "Three females jumped her and beat her up so badly in the cafeteria the ambulance had to be called. I'd give her the Mace again," Morales defended herself.

Loucks admits she sprayed two rival female students after they attacked her in the lunchroom of the Pablo Neruda Academy High School on Wednesday. The fight broke out minutes before the teens were set to have a mediation meeting with school administrators. The four-months pregnant Loucks says that officers treated her too harshly during her arrest: "They got really, really physical. They slammed me on the floor, had me face down on my stomach and sat on top of me," she said.

Both mother and daughter were charged with criminal possession of a weapon. Morales has been convicted twice before of conduct detrimental to a child, including once for fighting on behalf of her son. Ultimately, Morales says she had to protect her daughter from the bullying, by any means necessary: "You can't continue to bully children. People are dying over it. Children are committing suicide over it. And I wasn't going to let my daughter be one of those statistics."

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By Ben Yakas in News on September 17, 2011 12:50 PM

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Gadea

The mom should have given her birth control pills as well as the mace.

ButtPlugs

I would do the same for my daughter and contact the parents telling them their daughter is about to get maced if they dont fuck off my pregnant kid.

idiotski11name

Since when is mace considered weapon? I thought it was legal in america...

Mordicai

Cops mace you, & you're just supposed to take it. Mace yourself in self defense...& go to jail! What the hell.

m015094

I know you hate cops (makes me wonder why), but cops don't randomly mace people.

In New York, pepper spray may be legally possessed by any person age 18 or over. She is 17. NY Penal Law 265.20 14 (a)

Mordicai

Who said I hate cops? Oh, the ad hominem guy. Cool, got it. Check me out bro, I'm calling you out for having really bad rhetoric! CHECK ME OUUUUUT.

whatidsay

Pablo Neruda Academy High School? No wonder this story has a surreal quality to it.

Gina S

I would do the same for my daughter.

winning1234

Your daughter is pregnant too?

celmira9

"The four-months pregnant Loucks says that officers treated her too harshly during her arrest: "They got really, really physical. They slammed me on the floor, had me face down on my stomach and sat on top of me," she said."

I am sick and tired of policemen sitting on the backs of the arrested individual to the point of sometimes killing them. WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THESE BRAIN DEAD POLICEMEN? WHEN WILL THIS STOP? STOP SITTING ON PEOPLE'S BACK. YOU CAN KILL THEM FROM AFIXIA. MAYOR BLOOMBERG PLEASE TAKE NOTE. AS A MATTER OF FACT I WILL WRITE TO HIS OFFICE DIRECTLY.

SINCE THE POLICE NOR SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS REFUSE TO HELP CHILDREN BULLIED, PARENTS WILL HAVE TO HELP THEIR CHILDREN BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. THE POLICE AND SCHOOLS ARE AS BAD AS THE BULLIES.

Adam Moreira

Not only do I not agree with the arrest, I believe that that since the danger and only eliminated by the use of pepper spray, the charges should be tossed by a judge.

In many other states, the victim would not be arrested.

SonnyBobiche

Big City Thinking. "Don't defend yourself with a weapon. Wait for the authorities." The fact that the authorities will take 15 to 30 minutes to show up, if at all and if called promptly, and all it takes for you to be severely or injured or killed is one minute does not register with them.

It's even worse in England. There you can't hurt the looters setting fire to your house and business while you are inside!

celmira9

WHEN THE POLICE FINALLY SHOW UP, THEN WILL SIT ON YOUR BACK AND FINISH THE JOB FOR THE BULLIES

aspiringrapper

Exactly. This happened in a cafeteria. I haven't been to a high school cafeteria in a while, but even when I was in school there was always a teacher or two on the scene. In the Bronx, with these hoodrats, you'd think they would have armed guards.

sluggita

how about arresting the creeps who beat up a pregnant woman? no?

Guest

Tyler Clementi noticed that no one saw anything wrong with persecuting
the victim and doing nothing to the perpetrator... and he threw himself
off the George Washington Bridge. Meanwhile here we are still not
getting his point. We're idiots.

celmira9

THE POLICE AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS ARE THE IDIOTS. I FEEL SORRY FOR STUDENTS IN THIS COUNTRY. THANK GOODNESS I DID NOT ATTEND ELEMENTARY NOR HIGH SCHOOL HERE. IT IS GETTING WORSE. NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE BUT THEN THEY APPEAR TO BE SURPRISED WHEN KIDS RETURN WITH MACHINE GUNS AND KILL 50 STUDENTS. THEY DO IT BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE.

Guest

Tyler Clementi noticed that no one saw anything wrong with persecuting the victim and doing nothing to the perpetrator... and he threw himself off the George Washington Bridge. Meanwhile here we are still not getting his point. We're idiots.

Guest

I'm not sure how we as a society are still prosecuting the victim for defending themselves. I'll quote Tyler Clementi on this one: "How is it that no one sees anything wrong with this?"