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'Geriatric Karen' attacks Florida mother and kids, three and six, with PEPPER SPRAY over fun summer activity
A 'geriatric Karen' attacked a mother and her two small daughters with pepper spray and shouted racial slurs at them while they played with bubbles in their yard.
Ada Anderson, 81, was arrested in Ocala on May 30 after she 'sprayed bare mace' at April Morant and her two children, aged three and six, according to an arrest report obtained by
At the time, Morant was playing with bubbles in her driveway when Anderson, an elderly white woman, walked up to 'the metal fence separating their properties' and unleashed the harmful spray on her and her children.
While she sprayed the family, Anderson yelled 'stupid n******' at them, Morant told an officer with the Marion County Sheriff's Department.
'Bubbles. Literally. The bubbles put her [Anderson] in a whole other arena, whatever was going on with her mind,' Morant told WESH.
The mother, who said she and her daughters were playing 'well away' from the fence Anderson approached them at, wasn't sure what the manic woman had in her hand at first.
'What went through my head is I thought she had a gun, so I literally kind of jumped, like it startled me … I didn't know what was in her hand … and then she sprayed it,' she said.
The toxic spray affected Morant and her children's lungs, and when cops interviewed the six-year-old she said he 'nose hurt' following the incident, records show.
Morant told police her children ran inside to grab water bottles to soothe the burning sensation afterward, the outlet reported.
Deputies also noted an 'orange/brown wet liquid substance on the fence' and grass once they got to the scene, the report stated.
When police spoke to Anderson, she told them Morant and her children were 'running up and down the fence and yelling at her,' which is what caused her to spray them, per the arrest report.
She claimed the spray didn't touch the victims, but police noted her porch is about 40ft away from the fence.
This was not the first time Morant has been victimized by Anderson as she told authorities of an incident that happened earlier that day involving her.
In a video recorded by Morant and shown to police, Anderson was allegedly heard shouting something along the lines of 'neighborhood... f***ing n****.'
'I feel like she's escalating,' Morant told the outlet, adding: 'Since day one. I have recordings of her.'
Anderson is facing battery charges on several counts, but Morant was hoping she would also be charged with a hate crime.
'Just battery? But nothing on the kids, or maybe a hate crime because you were saying all this stuff while you were spraying this stuff,' she said.
Anderson posted a $6,000 bond and has been appointed a public defender. She is due in court on July 1, per court records.
For now, Morant is focused on protecting her family and is hoping to get a restraining order against Anderson and possibly move away from her.
'For you to do the bear spray stuff, like I feel like I don't know what you have in that house. I don't know. I don't want to be by her,' Morant said.
She started a GoFundMe page to help her raise money for her and her family to move to a new home, away from Anderson.
'Imagine the pain. Imagine the fear. Imagine your babies screaming while someone who hates the color of their skin attacks them for existing,' she wrote.
As of Sunday afternoon more than $1,900 was raised.
Anderson has a past history of neighborhood disputes as she was previously arrested for aggravated assault and stalking in 2019 and 2017, according to records reviewed by Law&Crime.
The assault charges related to one of her neighbors, but prosecutors did not pursue the case, the outlet reported.
