A Florida woman was arrested after police said she beat up her daughter for going to Target with her friend.
Martha Juliana Mendoza, 43, is still in custody after being charged with child abuse, battery by strangulation, and aggravated assault in connection with an incident reported by her daughter on Wednesday night. According to an arrest report reviewed by Law&Crime, the daughter, whose age was not provided, called police after she said her mother attacked her. Police said the daughter told them she went to Target with a friend earlier that day, and when she returned home, her mother “grabbed her by her hair” and “began hitting her head against the wall.”
In the arrest report, police said the daughter had “visible redness to her face” when they arrived at Mendoza’s home in Homestead, Florida, late Wednesday night. The daughter said she told her mother in a text that she was going to Target with her friend. While she and her friend were out, the daughter said Mendoza “was texting her the whole time,” asking where she was and telling her to come home…