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I told 3girls (12+) to leave me and my kids alone and the mom got in my kids face raising her fist

Here’s the context : my sons on a baseball team and games are at a public school FAMILIES come and some leave their kid at the playground while they watch their other child play and I’m the only parent of 8teams who is ever PRESENT on the playground because I also have a 1yr old who I follow around while my son plays and my 12yr daughter plays with her friends but is always within eye sight and constant communication with me.. one of the girls from our own teams family started hanging out with my daughter at games last fall/winter season. This girl was immediately SEXUAL AND ENCOURAGED my 12yo to share her cell phone number with strangers onROBLOX and she was also sharing HER OWN cell number with strangers on Roblox. NATURALLY we said no more hanging out with that girl becuase that’s not safe. This girl was obsessively calling/texting my daughter and hunting her down at any team games/practices and literally clinging to her arm always hitting her/pushing her and touching her even though my daughter had told her toSTOP multiple times… I encouraged my daughter to advocate for herself and also explained some life circumstances that girl is going thru which may be why she behaves so terriblyz I was genuinely trying to be empathetic without tolerating abuse for my kid… I witnessed this girl push my daughter SUPER HARD from behind one day and my daughter judo tossed her to the ground finally.. this girl came to me crying saying my daughter just attacked her and said she can’t be doing that.. I told her “I saw the WHOLE thing and that we have all asked her to keep her hands to herself and she can’t push my kid and expect her to just tolerate it. My daughter can and WILL defend herself” she said “oh, okay” and continued playing with my daughter and other kids. FINE whatever.
I’ve brought other friends to the games and this same girl would get upset and start “fights” with my kid and. Her friends out of what seemed like jealousy. 2 weeks ago we brought a friend and this girl teamed up with 2 other girls and began following my daughter and her friend around while insulting them and one of them told this girl to push my daughter so she ran up and pushed her down causing deep bruising and scratches on her hip. Finally confronted the parents because holy shit… ffwd to more recently and the same girls were following my daughter and her friend around the school making faces, rude gestures ( middle fingers) and insulting them AGAIN.. my daughter and her friend were instructed to AVOID these girls and to come to ME if they start following them and within 30min these girls were following mine again and harassing them. I watched this happen for another 45min as my girls stayed by my side following me and my youngest around the playground and finally confronted the others saying to leave them alone and if I needed to talk to their parents again.
They all ran to their parents who were watching the game not paying any attention to what these girls had been doing. They told their mom I was cursing and screaming at them and she ran up on me while I’m holding my 1yr old yelling at me to come to her with problems and not talk to her kids again.
I said I would but idk where she is all the time and it’s not my job to hunt you down. If your kids are at the park UNSUPERVISED harassing me and my kids I WILL tell them to stop and leave us alone if she doesn’t like it she should stay closer to supervise her kids and make sure they’re not causing problems. I didn’t yell, threaten or curse at them I said leave my girls alone. Do I need to talk to y’all’s parents” (as a parent if be fine with someone telling my kids the same if they were harassing…)She started telling me that my girls spewed racial slurs at her kids ( not true becuase they were with me the whole time and they didn’t open their mouths as Instructed) I entertained tho and asked what racial slurs ( I’m Hispanic my daughters friend is black) and she said they called her daughter the most horrible racial slur ever… when I asked what that was she said “cracker” they called her dark skinned girls a “cracker” AGAIN NOTNTRUE BECAUSE I WAS PRESENT THE WHOLE TIME but also like that’s not the worst most henious slur especially to nonwhite ppl 🤦🏻‍♀️ she acknowledged her kids bad behavior and literally said “so what” and demanded that we ignore her daughter aggressive harassment becuase my girls “are just too sensitive “… an that as a parent I should NEVER address another parents kid I should only ever adddress the parent and then she proceeded to STEP UP AND GET ON MY 12yr old daughters face IN FRONT OF ME. She also reminded me that I don’t own the playground and I don’t have the right to be left alone or to respond to harassment 🫠 but that her daughters are well within their right to follow us around to harass us?! WHAT!?…. … .