A schoolboy 'Facebook shamed' for breaking a classmate's shoe has written an apologetic letter to the girl, as his mother said she had no regrets about revealing the incident online.

Terri Day Evans, 30, was so horrified when 12-year-old son Jacob stamped on a girl's foot so hard he broke her shoe she decided to publicly shame him on the social network.

Using the hashtag #Iwillnothaveabullyinmyhouse, she revealed she would be making Jacob use his birthday money to buy the girl new shoes and a bunch of flowers by way of an apology.

Horrified: Mum Terri Day Evans took to Facebook to shame her son after he stamped on another pupil's foot at school - and the post went viral

He has since written her a letter, which read: 'Sorry about breaking your shoes, I really didn't mean to. I don't really know why I did it but I promise I won't do it again. I will fix your shoes.'

However, Ms Evans, a single mother from Whittington, near Oswestry, Shropshire, ended up explaining her decision to take her child to task so publicly after her post got more than 55,000 likes - and a number of negative comments.

Speaking to MailOnline today, the mother-of-four said she had put up the post to show her son's friends the severity of what he had done, and did not regret writing it.

However, she said she had since set the post to private after it was viewed by so many people, and 'felt terrible' that it had gone viral - although the boy was less concerned.

'I feel terrible for it,' she said today. I don't feel terrible for what I have done, I stand by my actions but my intention was for his friends to see it not the whole country to see it.

'As soon as that happened for me it went to far. I would do it again tomorrow if he did it tomorrow.

'What works for one parent's child will work for one, what works for another will work for another.

'When I take his computer off him, he goes "yeh alright", if he has chores to do it's "yeh alright", he is just so reasonable.

'The only thing I could do was show his mates that he is not big and he is not clever and he can feel just a tiny bit of what that little girl felt.

'He has apologised to her, he wrote her a letter the same night and took it to school the next day.

'It was the first time he has ever done anything like that and I wanted to make sure that it was the last.'

Defence: But some questioned whether or not it was a good decision, and she was forced to explain herself

After the incident on February 22, Ms Evans posted her status online.

She wrote: 'Absolutely disgusted that my 12 year old son saw fit to purposefully tread on a new girls foot at school and twist his foot with such force it broke her brand new shoes (causing the heel) to snap,' Ms Evans wrote.

‘I’ll tell you something Jacob, if you so much as breath in her or anyone’s direction in a bullying manner I will personally hand you over to their parents for every demeaning chore they see fit for as long as they do… kiss goodbye to your birthday money as you will be buying the girl a new pair of shoes and a bunch of flowers! ‪#‎iwillnothaveabullyinmyhouse‬.'

But the post also attracted criticism for the way Ms Evans had dealt with the issue.

According to the Metro, Alison Kyle wrote: ‘Why extend the humiliation? Your poor son. This will haunt him forever. A mistake at 12, online now for all to see.’

Michael Crowley wrote: ‘This is an incredibly dangerous thing to do to any child… What is even more disturbing are the huge numbers on here who cannot even see the dangers of what she has done.’

Ms Evans then added a clarification to her post, explaining she had spoken to her son before posting the message - and she had tagged him originally to show 'his actions have consequences, he is not big, clever, hard or funny'.

After the post went viral, she detagged him.

But this didn't stop people questioning what she had done.

Ms Evans added: ‘I don’t much care who doesn’t agree with my parenting style, my son humiliated and embarrassed a girl, regardless of his reasoning (which was he didn’t expect to break the shoe he just thought she may step out of it or stumble) that little girl still cried, for anyone’s knowledge that girl may have left her old school because she was being bullied… then imagine how much worse my son’s ridiculous act would have made her feel.'

She concluded: 'I am wholly confident this was a single occurrence which won’t be repeated.'

Law graduate Ms Evans said she had decided to take such a strong stance because she had a friend at school who was the victim of bullying, and was still affected by it as an adult.

'There was a new girl who had come to his school, he stood on her shoe and he did it on purpose,' she said of her son.

'I just thought could you imagine if she had been bullied at her previous school and come to her first few days at a new school and some child who she doesn't know stands on the back of her feet.

'I would be devastated, I would be gutted for the little girl and her parents when she went home.

'That is why I did it, to show his friends.

'All my status basically said was if you do it again I will give you to the parents myself.

"I have never had a child who has been bullied. My son is a straight A student, his hobbies include playing the piano.

'He is not that kind of boy, socially he just copies other people unfortunately but he had to know that it was wrong.

'And I thought by doing that it was a one-off thing and that would be it.'

She said she had told the boy to buy his classmate flowers with his birthday money, and told him to apologise, before explaining why she would be posting about him on Facebook.

'And I said "I will be putting a Facebook status on to show your friends that you are not big, you are not hard and you're not clever".

'I told him I had taken it down because it has gone viral but it is a bit late. He said "oh well" and wasn't bothered.

Ms Evans said she had also taken down the boy's Facebook profile, and had sat down with him to talk about the seriousness of what he had done.

'I took his Facebook profile down, it was part of his punishment anyway,' she said.

'I did what I did and I will stand by what I did, I don't think I was wrong.

"Most of my posts are public, I always say I never have anything to hide.

'I left it public and when it hit 20,000 me and my son sat down and we discussed the consequences of bullying and I said I am going to take your profile as a consequence of your actions.

'He is not a bully. I know what he did, if it would have been a continual behavioural pattern it would have become bullying.

'But to that little girl I just don't know what she felt. I have not spoke to her parents because I don't know who the parents are.

'But I just wanted them to know as well. I rang his headmaster and said I fully support any disciplinary matter.

'I said 'do what you need to do' and I will deal with the rest at home.

'He is not that sort of boy but I don't want him to be like that.

'I teach by like a mirrorism, this is what he did and this is what they felt so now I want you to feel slightly what they felt.

'And when you put them in their shoes it changes their attitude as well.