Christa Moore was spending the day at a playground, watching her two daughters having fun on the swings. She began getting a strange feeling when she noticed a man “eyeballing” her children.
Moore quickly realized her gut instinct about the man was right. Before she knew it, the stranger had managed to walk up behind her two-year-old, rip her off of the swing and tear the little girls pants and diaper off of her.
The man was holding the toddler by her hips when he took off his his pants and lifted his shirt up. He began thrusting himself against the two-year-old after tearing her clothing away.
Moore began attacking the man to try to stop him from hurting her daughter. She ran after him, jumped on top of him, knocking him to the ground while she was throwing punches at him. He was able to get away from her, but he didn 't get far.
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Barnes said "If cops didn 't show up, I was going in."
According to KCTV 5, Moore said:
William L. Bates Jr. was arrested near the playground. Moore identified him as the man who attacked her daughter from a police photo. The police report said he was found carrying an unidentified white vial of fluid with a chemical odor and marijuana, according to Fox4KC.
The man told police he didn 't remember anything about attacking the child except for waking up inside the fenced area after getting a cigarette from someone close to the