Jorge Rivera, 46, and his wife, Dagmarie Aponte Iturrino, 45, were both slapped with assault charges after their meeting with the Deltona Middle School officer descended into chaos on Tuesday,

DELTONA — Two Central Florida parents were charged criminally after a mother pushed a middle school resource officer and the father punched her in the face, authorities said Wednesday. Jorge

DELTONA, Fla. -- A husband and wife were arrested in Florida on Nov. 19, accused of attacking a school resource deputy at Deltona Middle School, whom they were meeting to discuss a battery charge against their son, the Volusia Sheriff said.

“The couple came to the school to protest their son’s battery charge for shoving a girl at school the day prior. When (the father) didn’t like the outcome of the meeting, he became irate, started screaming at the deputy and was asked to leave,” the sheriff’s office reported.

The parents showed up at school and the mother pushed the deputy against a wall, and the father called the deputy a derogatory slur before punching her in the head.

In a report from WFTV, the parents went to a meeting Tuesday morning at Deltona Middle School to protest a battery charge against their son.

Deputies in Volusia County said a man and his wife attacked a school resource deputy Tuesday morning at Deltona Middle School.

Two central Florida parents were charged criminally after a mother pushed a middle school resource deputy and the father punched the law enforcement officer in the face.

Jorge Rivera and his wife Dagmarie Aponte Iturrino attended a meeting with a school resource officer on Tuesday, before the situation escalated