there s nothing fair about this. reporter: when sarah sim s 9-year-old daughter told her she was being bullied at school, sims tried to get her help. she called and e-mailed the administrators at ocean view elementary school in norfolk, virginia. no one answered, but she kept trying. if i m not getting an answer from you, then what am i left to do. reporter: determined to get proof that the bullying was happening, sims took matters into her own hands. she sent her daughter to school with a digital audio recorder in her backpack. in the classroom it was constantly running at her daughter s desk recording the school day. school officials found out about it, confiscated the device and called police who questioned the 9-year-old. sims says the school never called her. one month later, the virginia mother learned she was in trouble with the law. next thing i know i m a felon. i ve got felony charges and a misdemeanor when i m trying to look out for my kid.
you made repeated calls and e-mails to the school trying to get whoever was responsible, and you said you got no response. so you decided to put a digital recorder in your daughter s backpack. so what did you hope to learn? tell me what happened? i was hoping to get a good idea or for the environment of the classroom. after not getting any responses to the e-mail and the dismissive behavior that i ve endured in the past and georgialin endured in the past, i thought it would be a good idea for me to do it on my own. i m a full time student, so i don t always get the opportunity to be on the premises. and i thought that this would be a good way for me to learn the environment all the way around. kristen, i want to bring you in now because sarah was charged with felony use of a device to
and her lawyer, kristen palding. thank you so much for joining me this evening. how are you guys doing? we re good, thank you. sarah, i m so sorry you re going through this. you said your daughter was being bullied at her elementary school. tell me what was happening? georgia had been bullied in the school previously. in grade 3 she had been kicked in her stomach and hit with a jump rope on the playground, and i wasn t notified by the school. she didn t want to attend anymore, she didn t want to go to school, and she became very anxious about attending. i removed her from the school because she was refusing to go. she felt like she wasn t protected. when i got her to another school and had her there i apologize. that s okay. it s tough. with all this attention you re dealing with, but let me ask you
communication, which could have a possibility of five years in prison. she was also charged with delinquency of a minor and misdemeanor. what do you make of these charges? don, i was appalled when i heard of his charges. i was shocked the school would decide to go to the police department and ultimately charge this mother as opposed to sitting her down and having just a simple conversation about what were her concerns and how could the school alleviate those concerns. this was an issue that involved not only bullying from students but sarah had a concern her daughter s teacher may have actually been speaking inappropriately to her. so the twice was a way to make sure that classroom was a safe place for her child. and unfortunately to this day we don t know what was said in this classroom on that day. we haven t heard the recording device. why hasn t the schooled called you and called the
say. right. and temperatures, it s warmer this morning than the last time. the last few mornings, salvaging the early morning hours, dropping a run. uh-huh. and you will be sweating the moment you step outside. and that is what happened to me yesterday when i went to the grocery store. yeah. and that is another story. and it was so hot out outside, it was unreal and . that is another story, all i heard. yeah. he was up until 7 8:30 last night. with that 83 in washington and 78 dulles; 75 at bwi marshal. celebrate our very quiet, might be an isolated storm later today and can t say no to that possibility and that is because the air mass is unstable. hot and hazycons continue. the high temperatures later and getting close to 100 degrees by 4 or 5:00 p.m. and that is obviously our highs in the upper 80s. we need to find someone else to do the outside work. we decide we re not going outside this weekend. yeah. and i don t do any work. and let s