India, Feb. 13 -- A mother who was beaten by a rival parent outside a school has opened up about her ordeal. She said that the incident left her traumatised, leading to her taking several weeks off her work. The horrible attack happened in front of a group of horrified schoolchildren. A woman pulled the mom by her hair and knelt on her chest.

25-year-old Jessica Kitching launched a vicious attack on 37-year-old Charlene Harkin outside the Willow Bank School in Lancaster, reported the Sun. Both their daughters are students in the establishment. Harkin and Kitching were close friends but had a fallout before the incident.

"This has been a complete trauma for all of us," Harkin told Dailymail. "I have had to pull my three kids out of that ...