A Salem mother today denied hitting a kindergarten student, saying she simply held her face to get the girl’s attention while demanding that she not hit her son.
Dominique Hans, 38, of 8 Heritage Drive, pleaded not guilty in Salem District Court to charges of assault and battery and being disorderly, stemming from an incident on board a school bus on Proctor Street Thursday.
Police and prosecutors say Hans marched on board the bus, ignoring a driver’s request to stop, and asked her 6-year-old son to point out a child he said had hit him earlier this week.
“I didn’t hit that little girl,” said Hans.
Hans told reporters outside court that she was upset after she said school officials failed to respond to her complaint about the earlier incident involving her son.
“I understand her position,” Hans said of the mother of the little girl. “I trespassed. I felt I needed to protect my son, which (the driver) did not do for him.”
Hans remains free on $1,000 cash bail posted last night at the Salem policestation. Judge Robert Brennan ordered her to have no unsupervised contact with children under 12 except for her own, to stay away from the girl’s school bus stop, the girl and her family, and to follow any orders issued by the Department of Children and Families while the case is pending.
She is due back in court on March 15.
For more on this story, see tomorrow’s Salem News.
DANVERS — Like a lot of Americans his age, 55-year-old Jorge Cruz Hernandez lost his job at a commercial cleaning company and found himself facing hard times.
After more than two years out of work, in 2010, Hernandez was forced to apply for benefits from the Department of Transitional Assistance, what used to be known as welfare.
SALEM — The Peabody Essex Museum is buying three downtown properties as part of its $200 million expansion.
One acquisition is a downtown landmark: 179 Essex St., the home of Bernard's Jewelers.
SALEM — The Blubber Hollow neighborhood may be trading a cluster of aged, dilapidated and disused industrial buildings for hundreds of new neighbors and three four-story apartment buildings.
The Planning Board held what is sure to be one of many public hearings last night on the Legacy Park Apartments at Harmony Grove Road, a proposal by MRM Project Management to build a mixed-use development that includes 141 one- and two-bedroom apartments along the North River canal.
SALEM — The mother of a kindergarten student was arrested yesterday after police said she boarded a school bus on Proctor Street and physically attacked the boy's classmate, yelling, screaming and hitting the little girl in the face.
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