You Won't Believe What This Middle School Student Did to Her Teacher to Wind Up With Assault Charges

A 14-year-old girl has been out of school for a month and charged with assault and battery with a weapon — the weapon of choice none other than a baby carrot.

Aliya was suspended from Moody Middle School for throwing a baby carrot at one of her former teachers. And while the student says it was intended as a joke, the school alleges that the baby carrot was used as a weapon in an assault and battery of the teacher.

"I don't even know how to combat the stupidity," said Karrie May, Aliya's mother. "Yes, it happened, and I can see a couple of days in-school detention or even a couple days out-of-school suspension. But this goes way beyond that. We have to go to court, and her charges aren't small: assault and battery with a weapon."

CBS 6 legal expert Todd Stone said that if it's a soft carrot, it may not be seen as offensive, but otherwise it's a different story. "If it's a raw carrot, you don't have to have an injury or show you were hurt to prove a battery," Stone explained. "It just has to be an offensive, vindictive touch. That's what the law says."

Henrico Schools has yet to comment on the carrot case, but Aliya said it happened in the hallway when she left class early. When she saw her teacher from last year, Aliya said she grabbed a baby carrot from her lunch and tossed it towards the teacher, not intending to strike her on the forehead.

"This could go before a judge, and there could be sufficient evidence to find her guilty, but I don't think it's something a judge would want to find her guilty of," Stone said. "They may offer her counseling, sort of a carrot at the end of a stick."