TikTok influencer slams South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas, defends mum at centre of ‘bullying’ video

A TikTok influencer has slammed South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas after he blasted a St Paul’s College parent who was filmed defending her child from a bully.

The mother went viral this week after video captured her berating at a student at the private Catholic school in the Adelaide suburb of Gilles Plains.

In the video, the mother could be heard threatening to “slit the throat” of the 12-year-old girl and yelling “I’m your worst f***ng nightmare”.

The mother has since exclusively revealed to 7NEWS that she was sorry for her behaviour, but claimed she had reached boiling point after repeated complaints to the school about her child’s bully had been ignored.

While many parents have rallied to show their support online for the mother, Malinauskas was among those who felt there was no excuse for her behaviour.

“It’s mind boggling,” Malinauskas told reporters on Wednesday.

“How do you possibly rationalise that behaviour? How does anyone in their own mind justify or rationalise that behaviour?

“It’s indefensible. It’s reprehensible.

“And it is exactly this type of incident that is why we are putting laws into the parliaments to give school principals the ability to bar parents who behave in such ways.”

But a content creator, who goes by Queen Dee on the platform, scolded Malinauskas for failing to consider why the mother lashed out and sympathise with her plight.

“How does this politician get up there and have an absolute look of f***ing disgust on his face towards this mother?” she asked her almost 40,000 followers.

“I’m not condoning what she did by any means. It’s never OK to charge into a classroom and start abusing someone in front of other children and I completely understand that.

“But she must have literally been at the point of desperation, because if my child was at the point where they were wanting to unalive themselves and nobody was giving me answers and nobody was being accountable for their behaviour or their bullying actions towards my child, it would be extremely frustrating.”

Queen Dee said the mother would have likely had to witness her child withdrawing and would have felt powerless in helping her when efforts to seek support fell on deaf ears.

She also questioned Malinauskas’ pledge to implement stricter laws that allow school staff to crack down on parents.

“Do you really think that is the right answer?” she continued.

“Maybe have a little bit of a look deeper within, because the problem lies within the education system itself.

“Even some of these poor teachers have absolutely no control. It’s not just the students getting bullied - teachers are getting bullied by students.”

Queen Dee said a “three strikes and you’re out” approach should be brought into schools to address bullying as she believes occasional suspensions only reinforce bad behaviour by allowing kids to take mini holidays away from the classroom — that teenagers are likely to enjoy.

She said that rather than victims being forced to move schools, the children harassing other students should be expelled after receiving — then breaching — two warnings by teachers.

“Why after all these years are we not implementing a no-bullying policy?” she said.

“How about we actually start thinking about how we hold bullies responsible for their actions towards our children.

“Because that is not the only mother out there who is sick of it.

“There are lots of mothers and fathers out there who are sick of it.”

Followers were quick to show their support for Queen Dee’s suggestions.

“I was of those parents!!! And I’m sorry I’ve had enough,” one commented.

“Schools are not doing enough to help theses children who are getting bullied and the bullies get a couple of days off school... What a joke.”

“Yes. Do something about the bullying so parents don’t have to,” another wrote.

“If we cant be assured their well being isn’t taken care off then that’s the issue.

“I’d step in just like her!”

In the shocking viral video, the fed-up mother can be heard verbally abusing the teenage girl in front of her peers during a class at the school.

“You ever f******* mess with my daughter again, I’ll slit you f******* throat,” she screamed.

“You want to f******* go b***h? You want to f****** go? You ever f******* talk to my daughter again.”

The mother has since claimed that her daughter has been bullied for more than 12 months and she was pushed over the edge after the student recently told her child to take her own life.

She said her daughter’s mental health has rapidly deteriorated as a result.

“It has been extremely difficult, we have had suicide attempts, we’ve had our daughter refuse to go to school,” she said.

“To see the physical effects it’s had on her mental health is destroying us as a family.”

Both parents of the bullied teen have since received an email from St Paul’s informing them that they have “breached the parent code of conduct’”.

They are now barred from stepping onto school grounds, and their daughter has been suspended from attending St Paul’s College while the matter is being investigated.

— With Hannah Foord and Lauren Thomson

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