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YAHOO.COM - The Florida mom arrested for choking a boy who bullied her daughter on Facebook admits she "lost it" when she put her hands around the boy's neck in the middle of a mall while her daughter watched.

"I said, 'Stop saying things about my daughter on Facebook,' and I did use some expletives, and I was told that he wasn't going to stop and he didn't have to stop," Debbie Piscitella said today on " Good Morning America."  "So I lost it.  I really, really did.

"I lost my temper," she said."  "I wish it would have been another route I had taken.  I don't go around doing that to children.  I don't want to sound like I'm a huge monster."

Piscitella, 46, and daughter McKenna, 13, were shopping at a St. Petersburg mall last Monday when the pair spotted the girl's alleged online tormentor, a teenage classmate. click here to read more