An Aiken woman slapped a 5-year-old girl in the face outside an Augusta home Saturday and told deputies that the girl had done the same to her daughter.
“Nobody is going hit my child, not even a 5 year old,” suspect Mary Williams reportedly said.
Williams, 20, was charged with simple battery as well as obstruction for running from Richmond County deputies when they were responded to the Jennings Place community.
On the Fourth of July, Richmond County cops were called to 1823 Cooney Circle about a fight in the street. The victim’s mother, Lanelle Calloway, said the suspect had slapped her 5-year-old caught on the left side of the face. A deputy observed redness and swelling on the girl’s face, a report says.
The deputy then saw Williams running away from the area and chased her to the rear of the complex towards Wooten Road. Two deputies caught her and asked her why she she ran. “I didn’t want to go to jail,” she said.
Williams then confessed to hitting the girl. “She slapped my child, so I slapped her,” the young mother reportedly said.
The suspect argued that she had warned the girl to stop flicking her daughter on the belly, but the girl did not stop so she hit her.
The victim’s mother told authorities she didn’t even know the suspect and was sitting on a porch on Cooney Circle and saw Williams slap her daughter. Paramedics were called to check out the girl and Williams was arrested.
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