When Mary Jane Jarman decided to take her routine jogging path accompanied by her baby in a stroller, I’m sure she did not expect to be attacked by any one! But never fear Super Mom is here! The Super Mom jumped into mommy mode and fought back against the attacker and left him with a bloody sight hit the jump for more detail!
33 year old, Mary Jane Jarman a Washington Heights resident took ahold of her day as she usually does, dropping her daughter off at school at then heading out for a jog right after. The stay at home mom had been jogging with her 8 month old son along the Hudson River Greenway near the Henry Hudson Parkway at about 9:30 a.m. when the unthinkable occurred! The aggressor jumped out “from a behind a wall holding a broken glass bottle”, she said.
“Come here, come here,” the man told Jarman, who said she began to run for her life, making it about 100 yards down the path before he grabbed her in a bear hug and took her down to the ground, knocking over the stroller in the process, HuffPost reports.
“I started screaming, trying to attract attention. He came at me,” said Jarman, who spoke to DNAinfo New York after speaking to detectives at the 34th Precinct station house.
And when that did not work the mom took hold of the situation and began fighting back:
“I kept hitting him,” she said, showing the shattered pieces of what remained of the black and silver metal bike pump, which she said she always packs in her stroller “to defend myself.”
The mother stated: “her first thought was to protect her 8-month old son, Thane, who lay silent in the stroller beside her during the attack. “I was protecting him with my life,” she said. Jarman said the man “didn’t try to get my phone. His sole intent was to hurt me.”
This is a tragedy turned into triumph, shout out to her for the quick thinking!
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