WOONSOCKET — The second mother in less than a month may be charged after driving a minor to an area school to fight another student. This time a 15-year-old girl’s mother allegedly drove the girl’s boyfriend to the Second Avenue School to fight a 13-year-old boy.

The fight apparently happened around the same time as another fight on Friday that involved 36-year-old Robin Sevigny — the wife of retired juvenile detective Paul Sevigny — and the woman’s daughter and niece.

Both Sevigny and her daughter were arrested and charged with simple assault for that fight, which occurred near a school bus stop, and the two 14-year-old girls have been suspended from Woonsocket High School for three days.

If the 13-year-old boy’s allegations are confirmed, this will be the fourth incident in which a mother has been accused of helping her daughter in a fight in less than a month. Two mothers and four 13-year-old girls were arrested for fighting outside Woonsocket Middle School on Jan. 8.

Supt. Maureen B. Macera, who said the School Department is applying for a state grant to create additional parenting and discipline classes in the district, called the recent incidents “tragic.”

Macera noted Woonsocket’s dubious title of having the highest rate of child abuse and neglect in the state.

“If parents feel that they can resort to this behavior on the outside, what must be going on in their homes?” she said.

Detective Lt. Timothy Paul said that the 13-year-old boy, who attends the Feinstein Learning Academy at the Second Avenue School, filed a complaint with the police against the 16-year-old boy on Friday afternoon.

The 13-year-old said he got into an argument on Thursday with the accused attacker’s 15-year-old girlfriend, who also attends the alternative learning school. The boy told the police that he was leaving school the next day when he saw the 16-year-old sitting in the passenger seat of the girl’s mother’s car.

He told police that the 16-year-old approached him and punched him several times in the face and ribs, and then the attacker and the mother got back in the mother’s car and drove away, Paul said.

Paul said the incident remains under investigation, and that detectives have identified but not arrested the 16-year-old. The 13-year-old sustained a cut to his lip and bruising around his ribs, Paul said.

The 16-year-old will be arrested and charged with simple assault., the police said. If the 13-year-old boy’s allegations hold up, the mother will be charged with conspiracy to commit assault, Paul said.

So far, only the 13-year-old has claimed that the girl’s mother drove the 16-year-old to school; it’s possible that the mother was at the school to pick up her daughter and did not drive the boyfriend there, Paul said.

“We’ve got conflicting stories,” he said.

Meanwhile, Woonsocket High School Principal George Nasuti said that the two 14-year-old girls involved in the fight at a bus stop near the corner of Rockland and South Main streets have both been suspended for three days.

The 10th graders, who are cousins, began fighting after getting off the bus Friday afternoon. A witness told police that Sevigny — who drove to the stop to pick up her daughter — punched her niece and then held her down while her daughter punched the girl. Sevigny told police that she was only trying to separate the girls and that she did not punch her niece.

Both Robin and Paul Sevigny, who was the head of the department’s juvenile detective division before retiring in 2005, declined to comment on Monday.

Nasuti said the alleged victim’s three-day suspension might be lifted after he reviews the police report. Because this was the first disciplinary infraction for both girls, no disciplinary hearing has been scheduled. Nasuti said both girls will have counseling and mediation sessions with school administrators when they return to school.

Macera said yesterday that the School Department is applying to the state’s Office of Adult Education for funding to bring additional adult education programs to the Virtual Learning Academy and the Woonsocket Area Career & Technical Center. The programs will include parenting and conflict-resolution classes, and childcare may be provided.

“It’s our obligation really to look at this by trying to provide some training that I think parents really need,” she said.

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