A two-year-old boy was allegedly slapped on the head and called a f***ot in Walmart…all for wearing a pink headband.
Katie Vyktoriah, real name Kathleen Carpenter, was shopping with her son, who was wearing a pink headband, in a Florida Walmart when two girls giggled and asked, “is that a boy or girl?” To which Vyktoriah politely clarified that her son Dexter is a boy.
That’s when things took a turn for the worse. In a blog Vyktoriah posted to the Huffington Post, she describes the incident.
Out of nowhere a big booming voice rang out. ‘THAT’S A BOY?!’ The man was overly large with a bushy beard and a camouflage shirt with the arms cut off. He had tattered shorts and lace-up work boots with no laces. I could smell the fug of cigarette smoke surrounding him, and there was a definite pong of beer on him.”
“’Yes,’ I said simply, still smiling.”
“With no notice, the man stepped forward, grabbed the headband off of Dexter’s head and threw it to the bottom of our shopping cart. He then cuffed Dexter around the side of his head (not hard, but that is not the point) and said with a big laugh, ‘You’ll thank me later, little man!’”
“At the same time as I stepped forward, Dexter grabbed his head where the man had smacked him and threw his other hand forward, stomping his foot and shouting, ‘NO!’ I got between my son and this man and said very firmly, ‘If you touch my son again, I will cut your damn hands off.’”
“The guy snarled at me, looked at Dexter with disgust and said, ‘Your son is a f*cking fa***t.’ He then started sauntering out, but not before he threw over his shoulder, ‘He’ll get shot for it one day.’”
Vyktoriah claims no one around came to her aid. Her story eventually prompted menacing threats, but also support from mommy communities.
But soon after the story went viral, doubts over the veracity of her claim began to surface. Eventually, the Huffington Post pulled her blog.
The Orlando Sentinel is also reporting that Vyktoriah has been hospitalized for mental evaluation after police were concerned about suicidal statements.
Now that’s a twist! Hopefully we all get to the bottom of this sad story.
SOURCE: Orlando Sentinel | Huffington Post
