Mom Attacked With Baby in Stroller Fights Back with Unexpected Weapon (VIDEO)

zaterdag 28 september 2013

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by Kiri Blakeley 7 hours ago

One of the most terrifying things in the world must be getting attacked by a random stranger who tries to rape you. Now quadruple your terror if your young child is with you at the time, in his stroller, and the attacker has just knocked the child over, who screams while you try to figure out what to do about the crazed attacker. This is the exact nightmarish scenario that MaryJane Jarman and her son, 8-month-old Thayne, were facing when the mom had just dropped off her 5-year-old at school and was jogging with Thayne in his stroller along a bucolic park in Upper Manhattan. But the attacker didn't quite understand that if you attack a mom with her kid -- you are going to get the fight of your life. And this one did.

It all started when Jarman was jogging with Thayne along the Hudson River early in the morning. She suddenly heard someone calling "Come here, come here," and saw a stranger crawl out of a nearby bush. He was holding a broken bottle and rushed at her.

Jarman says she began screaming and yelling, hoping someone would hear her, as the man grabbed her in a bear hug and tried to pull her behind a large wall. Police believe he meant to rape her.

Unbelievably, the man kept apologizing as he attacked her, saying, "I'm sorry, I'm sick."

But that wasn't going to earn any sympathy points with Jardan, who realized that her son's stroller had been knocked over in their struggle, and he was laying on the ground screaming. She told the New York Daily News:

My son was hysterical. He was screaming and crying.

At this point, Jardan knew she was in a fight for her -- and possibly her son's -- life. She says:

I wasn’t going to go down that way. I was going to kill him to protect my son.

Jardan grabbed her small but hard metal bicycle pump. She knew just what to do with it, hitting his head "over and over" until he was bleeding and had some "nasty gashes." Outdone and bleeding profusely, the psycho finally ran off.Cops were impressed. "She squared off with him. She stood her ground," a police source told the Daily News.Jardan and her son are unhurt, thank goodness. This could have ended up tragically -- and no doubt Jardan will have some emotional scars -- but this fierce mom wasn't going to let this asswipe get the best of her. Her son will be proud.Hopefully this guy will be caught soon -- he's got gashes on his face, so he will be seen and recognized. Any scumbag who wants to rape a woman in front of her child needs to be taken off the streets.
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2-Year-Old Boy Wearing Pink Flower Headband Is Attacked By Grown Man

maandag 5 augustus 2013

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by Adriana Velez 2 hours ago

I almost didn't read this story: "What Happened When My Son Wore a Pink Headband to Walmart." I kind of figured I already knew what happened. People were jerks about it and maybe made a few snarky comments to her, she went home and wrote a blog post about it. And now we feel defensive on her behalf. The end. We've all heard stories like this before -- the boy in the princess costume, Jenna Lyons painting her son's toenails. I read the story anyway ... and my jaw dropped. It's so much worse than I thought it would be.

Katie Vyktoriah wrestled her 2-year-old son Dexter and her 5-month-old baby into the car to pick up a few necessities at the store. Moms have to pick their battles, so she made Dexter leave behind the huge stuffed bear he wanted to bring, but she let him keep the pink lace flower headband he was wearing. Maybe she expected a few looks, I don't know. But she certainly didn't expect her son to be grabbed and threatened by a full-grown adult.

A large man saw Dexter, stormed over, tore off the headband, cuffed the toddler on the side of his head, and said, "You'll thank me later, little man!" Kind of a terrifying and infuriating thing for a stranger to do to your kid, right? Kate went into mama bear mode and said, "If you touch my son again, I will cut your damn hands off." And that's when the guy upped the ante and snarled, "Your son is a f*cking fa***t ... He'll get shot for it one day."

Yeah, he said that to a mother and her 2-year-old son.

So that's undeniably horrible. However you feel about little boys in pink headbands, you just do not touch other people's children, you don't pull articles of clothing off their bodies, and you certainly don't call them a slur and tell them they'll get shot someday -- which sounds awfully close to a threat, actually. All of this is unacceptable, uncivilized behavior. (Katie said on Facebook that she did eventually report the incident to the police and can't comment further on it at this time.)

But can we talk about all the bystanders who did nothing in response? "There were several people who had witnessed the encounter, but not one of them came over to offer support or console me or my son." I bet some of them were parents, too. I don't blame them for not wanting to confront the bully. But not a single person could ask Katie if she was alright, or offer some sympathy, or anything? That's almost as bad, I think.

It's easy enough to not be the asshole. But being a civilized and compassionate human being requires a little more from us. However you feel about pink headbands on little boys, can we see what's most important here? More important than a 2-year-old learning that some adults will go apeshit if you don't conform to gender stereotypes? What's most important is that we affirm for each other, every single day, that we value kindness. And we do that through our words and actions. Don't be that big jerk at Walmart, but don't be those little jerks who stood by and said nothing, either.

What would you have done if you'd seen this happen?

Image via Maegan Tintari/Flickr

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Adriana Velez

is a staff writer who dabbles in food, parenting, news, entertainment, molecular biology, and anything else that that pops into her head. She lives with her elementary school-aged son in Brooklyn, land of urban farms and artisan everything.  

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