Mom attacks teacher then flees with child

DECATUR - A DeKalb County parent has been accused of attacking and beating a teacher because she believed the teacher slapped her daughter. <br> <br> Lalindus Cater of Decatur beat the first grade teacher with a cell phone and coffee mug in a classroom full of students, police said. <br> <br> Cater then took her 6-year-old daughter and fled from the school, they said. <br> <br> DeKalb County police were still searching for Cater, 41, on Friday. She will be charged with two counts of aggravated battery. <br> <br> Police said Cater went to Canby Lane Elementary School on Wednesday with her daughter insisting that she had been slapped and ``demanding to know who did it.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> ``A couple of teachers present went to the office to get help, and the suspect just attacked,&#39;&#39; said Jim Hanson, deputy public safety director for DeKalb County schools. <br> <br> The attack sent teacher Dawn Martin, 43, to DeKalb Medical Center bleeding from cuts on her face and head.