CERES, CA. - The teenager caught fighting on camera was most likely seeking approval from his mother, according to a Manteca child psychologist.
Clinical psychologist Victoria Boccanfuso weighed in on the YouTube fight video, in which a Ceres mother is shown encouraging and cursing at her 14-year-old son to fight another boy on her front lawn.
Ceres police arrested Jennifer Zuniga, 33, for child endangerment and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Police said Zuniga not only encouraged the fight, but facilitated it by approaching her son's rival afterschool and inviting him to fight her son.
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In the video, the boys are pulled up off the ground by a peer and don't continue exchanging punches until they look at Zuniga and she asks, "Are you done?"
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