A Santa Rosa woman is accused of grabbing a 12-year-old boy by the throat after confronting him on an elementary school campus about bullying her daughter. 
 
 Delia Garcia-Bratcher, 30, was arrested on suspicion of felony child abuse in the Friday incident at Olivet Charter Elementary School on Willowside Road, said Lt. Mark Essick of the sheriff's department. 
 
 Garcia-Bratcher came to the 320-student campus about lunchtime and asked her son to point out a boy she suspected of bullying her 10-year-old daughter, Essick said. 
 
 She approached the boy in front of other students, grabbed him by the neck, shoved him and warned him to stop, Essick said. 
 
 “It's pretty unreasonable for a parent to go storming on campus like this,” Essick said. 
 
 The boy ran to a classroom, told a teacher and the two went to the office where school officials took pictures of the injuries. 
 
 Essick said red marks were still visible when deputies arrived a short while later. 
 
 “You can see fingerprints on his neck,” Essick said. 
 
 Garcia-Bratcher was arrested Saturday on a charge of inflicting injury to a child. She was released later in the day on $30,000 bail. 
 
 She is scheduled to appear in court Thursday. 
 
 The woman told arresting officers she was on campus to enroll a third child in school, Essick said. 
 
 She spotted her 11-year-old son on the playground and asked him to identify the boy who was allegedly bullying her daughter, he said. 
 
 No adults witnessed the confrontation, and the woman had apparently not checked in with the office before coming on campus, authorities said. 
 
 Essick said deputies were looking into the bullying claims but so far have not substantiated them. 
 
 But, he said, even if bullying was occurring, Garcia-Bratcher had no business confronting the boy directly. 
 
 “To take it into her own hands was absolutely the wrong thing to do,” Essick said. 
 
 Jennie Snyder, superintendent of Piner-Olivet Union School District, said it is rare to have a parent confront a student on campus. 
 
 “Thankfully, it's not something that occurs,” she said. 
 
 She said policy requires visitors to sign in to the office and wear a badge. 
 
 A letter was being drafted about the incident and would be emailed to parents Monday, she said. 
 
 She also said she was looking into bullying claims. 
 
 “Student safety is our first and foremost concern,” Snyder said. “We have safety procedures in place and we will be following through on them.” 
 
 You can reach Staff Writer Paul Payne at 568-5312 or paul.payne@pressdemcrat.com ||||| SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California woman is facing charges that she grabbed a 12-year-old boy by the throat while confronting him about bullying her daughter, authorities said Sunday. 
 
 Delia Garcia-Bratcher, 30, of Santa Rosa came to an elementary school around lunchtime Friday and asked her son, who also attends the school, to point out her daughter's alleged tormentor, the Sonoma County Sheriff's office said in a statement. 
 
 The mother grabbed the boy by the throat in front of a number of children, the statement said. 
 
 No adult saw the confrontation, and Garcia-Bratcher apparently had not checked in with the school office before coming on campus, authorities said. 
 
 The young witnesses later told a deputy the mother threatened the boy about bullying her daughter. The staff at Olivet Charter Elementary School took photos of red marks on the boy's neck as soon as they learned about the alleged assault, authorities said. 
 
 Garcia-Bratcher was arrested on a charge of felony child abuse. She was released from jail after posting a $30,000 bail. 
 
 A telephone number for a Delia Bratcher was disconnected. But on a Facebook page that said it belonged to Bratcher, she posted that she was hurt by the accusation and asserted that "the truth will be told." 
 
 Lt. Mark Essick told the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat (http://bit.ly/1mL5FFV) that deputies were looking into the bullying claims but have not substantiated them. ||||| SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California sheriff's official says a mother suspected of attacking a 12-year-old boy she said was bullying her daughter at school may have targeted the wrong child. 
 
 Sonoma County sheriff's Lt. Steve Brown said Monday that investigators have not found anything linking the boy to the bullying allegations. 
 
 The girl's mom, Delia Garcia-Bratcher, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of inflicting injury on a child after sheriff's deputies say she came to Olivet Elementary Charter School in Santa Rosa on Friday and grabbed the boy by the throat. 
 
 Garcia-Bratcher was released Saturday on $30,000 bail. Telephone listings for her were disconnected. 
 
 School district officials are also investigating the possible bullying. 
 
 Sonoma County prosecutors said Monday they were still awaiting the sheriff's report before deciding on any charges.
– A California mom went vigilante on Friday by grabbing and shoving an alleged 12-year-old bully on school grounds, authorities say. Delia Garcia-Bratcher, 30, was visiting Olivet Charter Elementary School in Santa Rosa, Calif., at lunchtime and asked her 10-year-old son to point out his tormenter. Seeing him, she grabbed his neck, gave him a shove, and told him to cut it out. Well, it wasn't long before the boy ran and told on Garcia-Bratcher, who was charged with inflicting injury on a child, the Press Democrat reports. "It's pretty unreasonable for a parent to go storming on campus like this," said a sheriff's department lieutenant. "You can see fingerprints on his neck." What's more, Garcia-Bratcher may have grabbed the wrong boy, as investigators haven't yet linked him to the bullying, the AP reports. Another AP story notes that a phone under the mom's name has been disconnected, and a Facebook page with her name on it says she was wounded by the accusations and "the truth will be told." Released on $30,000 bail, she's due in court on Thursday.