A former police officer said she fears British society is becoming as lawless as her former beat in the US as her husband was sacked from his teaching role after standing up to youngsters threatening to rape her.
Michael Flynn, 55, lost his job as a primary school teacher over a Facebook post, in which he detailed how yobs tried to steal a bike from his front garden and threatened to sexually attack his wife Angela.
She today slammed the decision, and British society, having worked as a police officer in Louisiana, US, before moving to Gillingham, Kent.
Speaking from her home there today, she urged police to try to find out the identities of the youngsters who confronted her and Michael on Tuesday May 23.
Mrs Flynn also challenged the youths. She said: "I’ve seen and experienced a lot, and I wasn’t going to let a snotty ten-year-old in Kent intimidate me. So I shouted at them to get off my property, started walking towards them and then these kids ran off."
The mother followed the youngsters to a park and attempted to find out who the parents of the one threatening her were so that she could alert them, but was unable to establish any names.
The same yob returned to her home with other friends the next day, and was about to hurl a brick through a window when Mr Flynn looked out and realised that it was one of his pupils - a 10-year-old boy.
Speaking to MailOnline, Mrs Flynn added: "I saw what happened in America with the way youngsters were allowed to get away with bad behaviour and sadly, Britain is now heading that way. Kids are becoming ungovernable, anti-social behaviour is increasing and parents can’t say anything, and schools don’t act to stop it.
"If a child steals a bike because he does not want to work for it and the school enables that child by sacking the teacher, then what message are you sending out?"
Mr Flynn was indeed dismissed from his post at Twydall Primary School for breaching its social media policy.
Mrs Flynn worked as a traffic cop, patrolling high-crime areas of Natchitoches, near New Orleans, and commanded an animal cruelty investigation unit when she was an officer.
The woman, who has four other children from her previous marriage and seven grandchildren, all of whom live in the US, met her husband online in 2019. He was living and working in Spain at the time.
They married in April 2020 in Spain and Mrs Flynn and her daughter Alexis, 20, moved to the country to live with him later that year. She needs 24-hour care after she was paralysed from the neck down in a diving accident four years ago.
The young woman, a teenager at the time, had been accepted into the US Marine Corps and had ambitions to become an FBI agent.
For the last six months, Mr and Mrs Flynn have been living in an assisted-living community in Twydall, a suburb of Gillingham.
And Mrs Flynn has noticed "how kind and helpful" Brits are, and is determined to maintain this attitude despite her family's threats last week.
She described the crime she has seen as "an evolutionary process" which she said must be challenged.
Speaking yesterday, a spokesman for the school said: "The wellbeing of our pupils is our priority and we take our responsibilities to safeguard children extremely seriously.
"We cannot discuss individual cases but incidents brought to our attention are fully investigated and acted upon in line with our policies and procedures, which align with Department for Education guidance."
Kent Police confirmed officers are investigating the abuse levelled at Mrs Flynn.
