The California mother who was charged with misdemeanors for encouraging her daughter to attack an opponent at a youth basketball tournament last year has been ordered to apologize and pay more than $9,000 in restitution.
As we previously reported, the incident, which was caught on video, and shared on social media occurred during a game between SoCal Blaze and Dream Academy youth basketball team’s at the MAP Sports Facility in Garden Grove on Nov. 7.
The attacker, who played for Dream Academy, fell onto Blaze’s Lauryn Ham after trying to shoot a three-pointer in the last seconds of the intense game. After both players got up from the floor and walked across the court, the attacker’s mother, identified as Latira Shonty Hunt, allegedly yelled, “You better hit her for that!”
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