LIBERTY, Mo. – Prosecutors say a Kansas City area woman provided transportation for her teenage daughter and another girl to a fight with several other teenagers and was encouraging the fight as it happened..
Sherri L. Turner, 46, of Kearney, is charged in Clay County Court with endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree. According to court documents, Turner admitted to drinking three beers Tuesday around 5:30 p.m. before allowing another teenage girl to drive her and her 16-year-old daughter to meet several other girls at an abandoned bridge at 172nd and Bishop Road in Kearney.
Police say a video of the incident that ensued shows Turner encouraging the girl who drove her there and another girl while they continually hit and punched a different girl, who at times was on the ground being held by her attackers.
Turner could be heard on the video coaching the girls, all age 16 and 17, while the fight continued, her probable cause statement says, and she asked the girls to move away from her car at one point in the fight.
Turner told police she tried to break up the fight after the camera was turned off and was too scared to break up the fight any earlier. She admitted she made a bad choice and should have done more to break up the fight, court records say.
Police were called Tuesday by the mother of the girl who had been assaulted. When officers arrived, the girl had a swollen face and was treated for a bloody nose.
Turner was arrested Tuesday night pending a 24 hour investigation of child endangerment. She was charged Wednesday after speaking to detectives.
