Women Sought in Videotaped Beating

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[Texaggie79]

MISHAWAKA, Ind. (AP) - A woman who was angry after leaving a department store was caught on a surveillance tape looking around as she helped her young daughter into a vehicle and then brutally beating the child for about half a minute, authorities said.

Police were searching for the woman and 4-year-old child Friday. The woman's sister, who had been with her in the store, was arrested, said community prosecutor Maggie Jones.

"As far as we know, she tried to exchange some merchandise, was denied that, became angry in the store at the service clerk and left. But I don't know how that could provoke an attack like this on a child," Mishawaka Police Chief Anthony Hazen said Friday on NBC's "Today" show.

The woman could be seen on the tape punching the child and shaking her, and authorities believe the little girl might have serious injuries. A doctor who saw the tape said she could have suffered head, neck and brain injuries, said Mike Samp, a police investigator.

Authorities identified the 25-year-old woman as Madelyne Gorman or Madelyne Toogood and the child as her daughter Martha Toogood.

Hazen said the woman is believed to be from the Dallas area and has a history of misdemeanor charges. He did not elaborate.

"We've spoke with several members of the family; they are not being cooperative right now. They said they disagree with the actions but they don't know where she's at," he said.

Hazen said the sister faces charges of failing to report child abuse, and the child's mother could face felony battery charges in the Sept. 13 beating.

"You can see the woman grab one of the girl's pony tails and forcefully shake her. That right there, not even counting all the blows that we saw the woman make, that right there constitutes battery," Jones told CNN.

The videotape shows the woman and girl walking to a sport utility vehicle along with a boy and the woman's sister.

The two women had tried to return merchandise at a Kohl's department store in Mishawaka, just east of South Bend near the Michigan border, but were refused, police said.

The tape shows the woman placing the girl in the vehicle's back seat and then striking her about the head. The woman also appears to shake, slap and punch the child before getting in the front seat and driving off.

The vehicle shown in the video had Texas license plates, and police eventually found it at a Mishawaka apartment complex. Police said it was not registered to either of the women shown on the tape.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

this is one reason FR is so great. you get the real details. thanks sinkspur.

[Redbob]

"Watch the kids legs at the end. Not very typical of a just beaten kid."

Typical leg-thrashing following brain-damage, though.

[Naspino]

I watched it again -- I have a sucky connection now. The first hits you cannot see where they go -- the last ones are when she's sitting down and appear to go to the head.

[Rokke]

Is that the way YOU play with your children? I like to roughhouse with my kids too, but that certainly doesn't include punches to the head.

[Billy_bob_bob]

Has this woman been identified as being a "gypsy"? Is that what she is? I heard that her family had been interviewed and had stated to the authorites that this woman and the child had left the state. Is the family a "gypsy" family?

[Dog]

Tex....look again......that child was in some serious pain after that BEATING....her legs weren't kicking happily....sheesh.

[gunnut]

Fox show two different clips that may have led to confusiion. In the first clip, it looked like the mother may have spanked the child but in the later segment they showed the entire clip after she put the child in the car seat it really looked like she punched the girl. Now that they have gone missing, I really can't believe there was nothing illegal going on.

[cactusSharp]

wanna read an eye opener ? read Steven King's
KING OF THE GYPSIES......what an amazing
nomadic cult........a great read of NY gypsies

[VaBthang4]

What are you a child abuser apologist?

I'd rather over react than pretend I know what the hell I am talking about. She beat the hell out of that little girl and only someone with an agenda could see otherwise...I saw the full video...she beat that little girl.

I'm off this thread.

[Commie Basher]

So it's a crime to fail to report child abuse, but it is also a crime to report smartass Islamists punks who spew pretend terrorist threats at a public restaurant. Now I get it.

No you don't. Unfortunately, our increasingly police statist society encourages reporting both .

The hypocrisy lies with the Stalino-FReepers and Stalino-PC/DU Leftists who only want to encourage reporting one or the other (take your pick -- no difference).

Those who really value liberty will oppose reporting both.

[Spin]

They've only shown the full video a few times. The beginning looks like the girl is just getting a spanking but after the girl is put in her seat she was punched in the head repeatedly then viciously shaken.

Regarding the girl kicking her legs, my kids do regardless of the mood. They kick their legs when throwing a tantrum, crying, laughing, etc.

[Truth29]

Agree. Some of the blows look like they were delivered with a closed fist.

[Naspino]

I still cannot see it as good as you people at home; but what if a BEE went on her and the kid was allergic and we're seeing the mother swinging at the bee? What a horrible misunderstanding..

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" it looked like her legs were bouncing up and down like little kids kick when they are happy."

I agree with you-when I saw the legs bouncing-it did look like a happy child- which I am sure is what her defense attorney will argue-they will also argue that the mother was pounding on the car seat and not the child. However-the video is brutal, the mother is certainly making contact, you can see the mother's fury, as she stalks behind the car. The family is hiding the child-until her bruises heal.

[tom paine 2]

bump

[cactusSharp]

TxAggie...I'm with you so far....I need to see more
that tape was deceiving to me SO FAR

[E. Pluribus Unum]

no one said that Eunice Stone committed a crime.

The smartass Islamist sister of one of the smartass Islamist punk pretend terrorists caller her a racist. It's a hate crime for a white person to be a racist.

[from occupied ga]

I saw it, and it was sickening. The kids legs were kicking like she was convulsing, not like she was happy.

[Defend the Second]

From a fellow Texan:

You are coming across as defending this child-beater. Is that your intention? The child is probably kicking her legs in terror, not in happiness. Have you seen the video?

[Texas_Jarhead]

that's disgusting. absolutely sickening.

I hope they catch that bee-atch and send her up the river.