A New Jersey coach utilized her assemblage arsenic a quality shield to protect a student who was being savagely beaten by a group of teens.
Cathy Hurley, 56, didn't deliberation doubly erstwhile she saw nan youngster being battered by a group of 5 thugs extracurricular a Bayonne schoolhouse earlier this week.
The typical acquisition coach escaped uninjured, dissimilar nan teen who was knocked unconscious during nan violence.
Educarray McGhie, 18, and 4 minors aged 15 to 17 person been charged pinch aggravated battle aft nan boy was near needing infirmary treatment.
'I was genuinely successful daze because of really vicious nan onslaught is,' Hurley's girl Frankie Sielski told NBC.
A New Jersey coach utilized her assemblage arsenic a quality shield to protect a student who was being savagely beaten by a group of teens
Cathy Hurley was credited pinch redeeming nan teen's life aft she put her ain information astatine consequence to thief him
She laic complete nan boy arsenic he was assaulted by 5 different youths who constabulary person charged pinch aggravated assault
'I Facetimed her immediately. Her eyes were welled up pinch tears, I said 'Are you OK?' She said thing very bad happened.'
The shocking video shows nan youths kicking and stomping connected nan teen has he lays defenseless connected nan ground.
Hurley is seen dropping to nan crushed and utilizing her assemblage to screen him until nan blows subside.
'Thank God she sewage connected apical of him because location was nary extremity successful sight,' Sielski added.
'I cognize her thought process was conscionable getting it to stop, and she kept saying 'We called nan cops, we called nan cops,' and nan kids wouldn't stop.
'She conscionable needed to get them to extremity truthful that's what her assemblage did. There was nary thought down it.'
The onslaught occurred adjacent to astatine William Shemin Midtown Community School, though nan alleged perpetrators be adjacent Bayonne High School.
In a missive to nan schoolhouse unit obtained by nan Jersey Post, nan Shemin schoolhouse management commended Hurley's 'fearlessness.'
'She was nan only big to participate nan situation, trying to propulsion nan attacker disconnected nan unfortunate and yet laying connected apical of nan student, to usage her assemblage arsenic a shield,' nan missive said.
Hurley's girl Frankie Sielski said she viewed nan horrific video respective times earlier realizing it was her mom protecting nan boy
The onslaught took spot earlier this week outside William Shemin Midtown Community School
Hurley was praised arsenic 'fearless' successful a missive from nan Wiliam Shemin schoolhouse administration
'Her dedication to our students, her motherly instincts and her Hudson County fearlessness necktie for a adjacent 2nd to her benignant and compassionate heart.'
Bayonne School District superintendent John Niesz added that Hurley embodies what nan citizens of Bayonne are each about.