A teenage woman has been taken into custody in reference to a battle involving a lady holding her 6-month-old son.
Police and Janie McCoy’s father verify that the altercation occurred the afternoon of Oct. 18 in Broken Bow, Okla.
Now mobile phone movies of the confrontation are going viral on Facebook.
And a web based petition requires arrests within the case.
The juvenile was apprehended Tuesday afternoon; then she and her mom appeared earlier than a decide, a police dispatcher mentioned.
No one else has been arrested, the dispatcher mentioned.
Jeremy McCoy, of Broken Bow, Okla., posted a video on Facebook about 6 p.m. Monday with the reason: “Hate to post this of my daughter being assaulted by 2 girls, and nothing has been done yet 5 days later. So please share.”
That put up has since been shared about 121,000 occasions and considered greater than 6 million occasions.
A associated video was posted the identical day on YouTube by a consumer recognized as Ray McElhaney. Accompanying it was the remark “Broken Bow, Okla., cops never arrested the other 2 for punching the girl holding the child.”
Janie McCoy advised KSLA News 12 in a telephone interview Tuesday that she and her son had been invited to a pal’s house six days in the past.
She says she was swinging together with her son when three women began working towards her and shouting.
“In that moment, I did not want to fight. I had my son with me; and if you know me, then you know that my kid comes first.”
The video reveals her asking the ladies why they had been confronting her.
“They said that I said something about somebody wanting to fight somebody that I had no idea what they was talking about,” Janie McCoy recalled.
The video additionally reveals one of many women yelling at Janie McCoy then turning to somebody and asking them to “get her baby.”
“She said she didn’t care if I had my baby in my hand or not,” Janie McCoy mentioned.
“I tried to get away from the situation and, as you can see, they struck me anyways.”
In the YouTube video, Janie McCoy will be seen being struck as soon as on the face and knocked to the bottom together with her son in her arms.
In the video her father posted on Facebook, Janie McCoy tries to drive the opposite women away by urging them that her son is just 6 months outdated.
One of the ladies then says within the video “I don’t give a-” and strikes Janie McCoy within the face once more.
That identical woman later observe Janie McCoy and her son all the way in which to the door of her pal’s residence, putting Janie McCoy on the again earlier than she may disappear inside.
Janie McCoy mentioned she suffered bruising on her cheek and a busted lip however her son made it out unharmed.
“I took him to the doctor to make sure everything was OK. He wasn’t hurt or anything, thank God.”
Meantime, a petition that was began early Monday morning at change.org has since gotten greater than 2,000 signatures.
The “McCurtain County Sheriff’s Department: Justice for Janie McCoy” web page created by a Ken McKinney features a display seize of McCoy’s Facebook put up and the next remark. (The particular person’s identify has been deleted as a result of she is a minor):
“Janie was assaulted and mistreated by the girl (name deleted). (Name deleted) not only assaulted Janie, but put the life of that innocent child in danger. That went to far and anyone who assaults a mother with a child in their arms deserve punishment at the fullest extent of the law.”
Jeremy McCoy advised KSLA News 12 on Tuesday afternoon that he now could be overwhelmed by the backwards and forwards with police over whether or not a report concerning the altercation has or has not been accomplished.
He referred additional inquiries to his daughter.