Saturday, May 16, 2015
Staff report
YOUNGSTOWN
A woman who slammed a door in the faces of police officers who told her it was her “parental duty” to take care of her daughter was arrested on charges of domestic violence and obstructing official business.
Police were called to a home in the 800 block of East Boston Avenue about 10 p.m. Thursday on a report of two women fighting, and when they arrived, they found a young female on the sidewalk crying.
The mother of the girl, Takiya Moore, 36, was speaking with an officer and told police she was not responsible for taking care of her daughter, reports said. Reports did not say how old the girl is.
Reports said when officers told her she could be arrested for refusing to care for her daughter she slammed the front door in their faces.
An officer then went to the back door and heard someone crashing through bushes and breaking sticks and found Moore hiding behind a shed, where she was placed into custody, reports said.
Moore confirmed witness statements that she had placed her daughter in a headlock, reports said. Her children were placed into custody with another woman before Moore was taken to the Mahoning County jail.
She later was questioned and released, according to the city prosecutor’s office.