Mom Accused Of Getting In Middle Of Teenage Fight

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FAST FACTS:

• Mother and two daughters arrested for fighting teenagers
• The 40-year-old mother is accused of handing her child a weapon
• Mother is also said to have attacked one the girls with a shoe and screwdriver

 
(Memphis 8/26/2010) What happened outside the Old Navy Store at Poplar and Highland started between teens, but ended with adults allegedly getting in the melee.

Forty year old Sonja Anderson and her 22-year-old daughter Jernecka are charged with aggravated assault.

Eunice Pegues' 17-year-old daughter Kendricka was one of those attacked.

"One (stab) to the neck, the chest, the head," says Pegues.

It started at a Taco Bell where Sonja Anderson's 16-year-old daughter apparently got into an argument with Kendricka and another 16-year-old.

The two girls left and the police report says Sonja and her daughters drove up, jumped out and started fighting the teens in front of Old Navy.

The report says Sonja handed her daughter what may have been a box cutter, which the teen used to cut the 16-year old's face and chest.

Then it says Sonja grabbed a high heel shoe and screw driver and began sticking Kendricka in the head.

When someone tried to help, Sonja reportedly said 'if you touch either of them I am gonna grab my pistol out of the car and shoot you.'

"It angered me so bad. I am a mother. You are mother. You don't do that. You try to resolve. I mean try to kill a child!" says Pegues

Both Sonja and Jernecka Anderson were in jail.

Sonja's 16-year-old was sent to juvenile detention.

The teen victim who suffered the most severe wounds was at home from school, but didn't want to talk.

There are reports all this started over a boy.

But parents tell us that's not true.