Woman uses 6 month old baby as weapon to attack boyfriend

US: An 18-year-old woman, Tatyana Allen from Florida has been arrested for allegedly using her 6 months old baby as a weapon to attack her boyfriend and then throwing the baby to the ground during a fight in Daytona Beach on Monday.

Safety officials with Volusia County Beach said Allen and her boyfriend got into a fight. At one point, Allen used her 6-month-old baby boy to batter the man.


Police said they received several 911 calls from witnesses who said they saw Allen, 18 swinging the baby “like a bat” during the altercation.


According to witnesses, they saw Allen hit her boyfriend, numerous times in the face before swinging the baby at him.
Allen then threw the baby face into the sand, said the witness.
Her boyfriend picked up the baby, and Allen “snatched” him back, another witnesses said.
According to two sworn witness statements, 

“As this happened, the baby’s head was not being supported and was ‘dangling,’ according to two sworn witness statements,”

Allen was “extremely rough with the baby,” her boyfriend was “very diligent and careful when trying to attend to his baby after the baby was thrown down in the sand,” the witness said.

Allen then called 911 as the incident was ongoing, to report that her boyfriend “pushed her several times on the boardwalk after he refused to walk to the restroom with her,”

According to police report, Allen denied using the baby as a weapon during the fight and said she did not throw the child down into the sand.

The baby was taken to the hospital following the altercation and is expected to be fine.

Allen, was arrested and charged with battery and infliction of physical and mental injury to a child and is being held without bail.