Mom allegedly takes daughter to fight, intervenes

[October 17, 2008]  VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) -- A mother who took her 12-year-old daughter to a Victorville park to fight another youngster has been arrested after allegedly jumping into the fracas. The woman was jailed for investigation corporal injury to a child.

San Bernardino County Sheriff's investigators say the 31-year-old woman took her daughter to the Mojave Desert park on Oct. 5 to fight the other 12-year-old girl.

When they arrived, the girls began fighting. Witnesses told deputies that the woman intervened when her daughter appeared to be losing. The woman allegedly grabbed the girl's hair and slapped the youngster in the face.

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