Support a Mom and Child After Brutal Attack

I hate that I’m even doing this because I hate to ask for handouts, but I truly need help. I’ve been trying so hard to handle everything on my own, but it seems impossible right now. With my health being an issue, my car breaking down, and losing my job over things out of my control, it has put me in a rough position.

Anyone that knows me knows I’m a very peaceful person. I don’t bother anyone; I keep to myself. I am kind to everyone I meet. I don’t even cuss around my child, let alone yell. I also LOVE animals, especially dogs.

I was taking my daughter on our usual daily walk in her stroller/wagon like we do every day. We walk past this house on my street and the dog starts barking at us. I told my daughter, “Look at the doggy!” and she said, “Aw, hi doggy!” Ten seconds later, this lady comes out and starts screaming at me, calling me every name in the book, saying, “I looked at her dog wrong.” And that she knows I was talking sh!t about her dog to my daughter? I tell her, “Excuse me? I really was just telling my daughter to look at the cute doggy.” And she continued to keep screaming at me and threatening me. I walked away because I don’t allow that behavior around my child.

We start walking again for about 20 minutes. We went around the middle school and came back down the road to go back to my house. When we were heading home, we had to walk by the same house. I checked to see if she was watching me, and she wasn’t. So I walked quickly by her house and she comes out screaming at me, telling me to stay off of her road and that she’ll beat my a$$ if I keep walking by her house. Screaming that I cussed out her dog?

I’m upset now. I’m telling her she’s not going to talk to me this way, especially in front of my daughter. I’m at the edge of her yard at this point and we’re arguing because she is threatening me. I kicked over her three pieces of wood in her yard by her tree and walked away, pushing my daughter in the stroller again. (It was like three little pieces of wood stacked on top of each other to look like a mini bench, but wasn’t actually put together.) I didn’t break anything. She then runs up behind me and grabs me by my shirt and hair and DRAGS ME into her yard and starts beating me up, telling me this is what I get for being rude to animals?! I SWEAR TO GOD, I cannot make this up. I know kicking that over was petty, but this woman was attacking me in front of my kid, so I did the smallest thing ever.

I fought to get away from this woman for 5 minutes and I was telling her my child is IN THE ROAD crying after me. She tells me my child can get hit by a bus and kept saying she’s fine. I really tried to keep getting away from her, but she pulled me to the ground and started beating me. She tried to rip my throat out and literally kill me by standing on my back and neck. I bit her, kicked her, and SCREAMED and cried for help while my daughter cried for me. No one heard me or helped me. This woman had her knee on my neck and the other on my back. I couldn’t breathe and she kept shoving my face into the ground. She cut me, punched me, kicked me, and tried to suffocate me. I begged her to get off of me. I finally got away and ran home with my daughter. This woman was most definitely drunk; I could smell it on her. I did call the cops because that was insane, but they said they couldn’t do anything because she dragged me into her yard and it’s a weird situation. They barely asked any questions and took pictures of me in the dark with no flash on.

The cops also asked why I even walked past her house in the first place when I’ve never had any issues before with anyone around my neighborhood?

She told me she got it all on video and I said GOOD. I got the audio. When the cops show up, her cameras conveniently don’t work apparently.

I had a concussion, two black eyes, a swollen cheek, bruised nose, my back is absolutely messed up, and I was cut to pieces. (I’m convinced she had a knife that I didn’t see.)

Not to mention, my child is traumatized and I feel like a terrible mom for even taking her on a walk. I wish I hadn’t even turned around, but she was threatening me and my child and knew where I lived. I have her dragging me into her yard on recording whenever I had left the situation. I had to go to the hospital. Since then, the state has pressed charges against me (and her) and I cannot afford the court fees. I can’t even afford to get my car fixed. She only had a bite mark on her from me, while I have countless pictures of abuse. She told the cops I ran into her yard and bit her so she defended herself. I’m not sure how anyone took that seriously, but I need help with this. I don’t even know what to do at this point besides cry. This case has not been handled properly and I’m really getting screwed over. No one in court has even asked about what happened, haven’t asked for my pictures or proof, and I had to call my attorney several times for him to finally call back 2 months later. I still haven’t met him yet. I’m not posting this to get pity because I really hate that I had to make this, but I’m trying to reach out for help, as hard as that is to do. I’d appreciate any help I can get, as embarrassing as this is. Thank you if you read this. ❤️