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A West Virginia mother punched her son in the face when he ordered the wrong toppings on her Taco Bell burrito, police say.
Milton police Cpl. Dean Bishop told WVAH-TV that when he first responded to the scene, he found a woman, later identified as Loretta Lynn Armstrong, 48, punching her child in the face.
Bishop said he managed to separate Armstrong from her youngest son. She got away, though, and threw herself in the driveway, he said.
"She screamed and cussed and yelled and claimed she was having a heart attack," he said.
Emergency medical personnel determined Armstrong wasn't having a heart attack. But, it still took Armstrong about three hours to calm down, Bishop said.
Armstrong was taken into custody and charged with felony child abuse and other unspecified charges. Her bond was set at $31,000.
The age of the child involved in the assault wasn't released.
"There's a difference between spanking your kid and punching your child in the face," Bishop said. "There's no sense in ever getting into an argument like that over a burrito -- just let it go."
A West Virginia mother punched her son in the face when he ordered the wrong toppings on her Taco Bell burrito, police say.
Milton police Cpl. Dean Bishop told WVAH-TV that when he first responded to the scene, he found a woman, later identified as Loretta Lynn Armstrong, 48, punching her child in the face.
Bishop said he managed to separate Armstrong from her youngest son. She got away, though, and threw herself in the driveway, he said.
"She screamed and cussed and yelled and claimed she was having a heart attack," he said.
Emergency medical personnel determined Armstrong wasn't having a heart attack. But, it still took Armstrong about three hours to calm down, Bishop said.
Armstrong was taken into custody and charged with felony child abuse and other unspecified charges. Her bond was set at $31,000.
The age of the child involved in the assault wasn't released.
"There's a difference between spanking your kid and punching your child in the face," Bishop said. "There's no sense in ever getting into an argument like that over a burrito -- just let it go."
