Mother asks for help after baby hit with skate | News

MIDWEST CITY, Okla. -- Midwest City police are investigating an assault case involving a 1-year-old baby. She was hit in the head with a roller skate. Now her mother is hoping the public will help catch the person who drove away after the attack.

It may only look like SarahTubby's15-month-old daughter, Nevaeh, has a scratch on her head.

But Sunday, that was a bump half the size of her mom's fist.

"I screamed," Tubby remembers after the attack. "I didn't know what to do and immediately her head started to swell up. She wasn't crying.  She wasn't making any noise."

Tubby says the assault happened at a Skateland in Midwest City Sunday afternoon.

She says while at a friend's birthday party, a girl in another party fell down and blamed Tubby's 11-year-old daughter for pushing her.

Tubby says several adults in that other party came after her 11 year old.

When she stepped in, she says she was choked while another friend was hit in the face.

One woman was escorted out of the building, but witnesses say she came back in and threw a skate at Tubby's party, which hit her baby girl in the head.

"There were other children there present," Tubby says. "There were eight birthday parties going on at the same time. It could have hit anybody."

"It was the most horrifying thing I've ever seen on a baby, and I have a bunch of kids," Mari Belle says, who was also attending the party with Tubby.

Belle says she ran after that woman in the parking lot and screamed at her not to leave.

"She hit a baby!" she says. "All her friends were out there and she was still in the car and I was like, 'Get out of the car, you hit a baby! A little baby with a skate!'"

But that woman drove away, leaving Tubby's baby girl badly injured.

"You never know who's going to be sitting right next to you," Tubby says.

Nevaeh suffered a slight concussion and is scheduled to see a doctor again on Friday.

The skating rink manager was out of town, but said he's turned over surveillance video to police to help them catch the woman responsible.

Anyone with information is asked to call police.