Mother Assaults Daughter at Disney World
More violent trash found its way to Disney World. WDW News Today reports that a 59-year-old woman from West Virginia named Andrea Jean Hill hit her 35-year-old daughter (who is unnamed) in the face last month at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, the Disney World park formerly known as MGM Studios. The fracas started as an altercation over “ride reservations” among family members, including the victim’s grandmother, who “‘became physical’ with the victim’s husband.” When the victim’s mother entered the fray, it started an argument between her and the victim, which resulted in Hill hitting her daughter, according to the arrest report. The victim says she couldn’t tell if the blow from her mother “was a punch or a slap.” Two Disney cast members intervened and split everyone up. Hill admits to striking her daughter, saying that her daughter pushed her away during a fight with the victim’s brother, which caused Hill to “slug her in the face.” The victim’s face was swelling, and her skin was red where she was hit. The victim did not sign the domestic violence affidavits offered to her by the sheriff’s deputies at the scene, and Hill pled not guilty to a battery domestic violence charge.
Mother ‘Slugs’ Daughter in the Face During Family Fight Over Genie+ Ride Reservations at Disney’s Hollywood Studioshttps://t.co/rwwIcEKXvb
— WDW News Today (@WDWNT) May 22, 2024
I had to read it twice, but to my surprise, no one seems to have overheard a crowd chanting, “JERRY! JERRY!” But here’s another example of the often overlooked truth that everyone eventually visits Disney World, and that will inevitably lead to skels getting violent. And while the mother hitting her daughter was the worst of it (“slug” sounds like she punched her to me), this incident was physical from the get-go, with grandma going after her grandson-in-law over God knows what. (This had to be the one time nobody was using their phone as a video camera, huh?) Based on some of the facts reported, I wonder if some of this had been brewing for a while. According to WDW News Today, the mother and daughter were sharing a hotel room (I’m sure the daughter’s husband was super pleased about that), and that kind of incessant crowding of each other can lead to animosity. I know the article says it was over “ride reservations,” but maybe this was the inevitable boiling over of tensions that had been building throughout the week. Regardless, it sounds like the staff did what they could to break it up, and it’s another isolated incident that’s one of the drawbacks of being in public.
