The young woman inside a local hotel lobby had been doused in orange juice and abandoned. She told police she had also been cut before the citrus bath, but they couldn’t find any signs of that.
The pieces weren’t adding up, so the officers decided to call her accused assailant — the girl’s mother — to get the other side of the tale.
The reason the girl was calling police from the hotel was because that was where the mom kicked her out of the vehicle. She’d already been kicked out of school that day and when the mother tried to take her phone as a punishment, the young girl “became enraged and attempted to burn the headliner of her car with a cigarette lighter.” That’s also when the orange juice came in handy.
The girl was turned over to her older sibling after the mother declined to pick her back up, citing a preference to go into work early.