Is anybody trying to jump off the balcony? And stuff like that? >> She just kept on yelling at me and >> Get that out. So, she yelled about >> It began with a 911 call reporting a child screaming for help inside a home in Homestead. What officers walked into was far more than a routine domestic disturbance. >> Homestead police. Is everything okay? >> No, my daughter tried to run away again. Look at her. Now, every week >> Okay, where she at? She tried to jump off the apartment. Where she at? >> What do you want ME TO DO? GET OUT OF HERE. YOU GOT THE ATTENTION YOU ASKED FOR. >> OKAY. YOU JUST ASKED ME TO COME. SO, come on. They're here. >> GET OUT HERE NOW. GET up now. >> Ma'am, why don't you just come over here and talk to me and see what's going on? Step outside. What's up, boss? You doing okay? >> Yeah, I'm fine. >> All right. So, anybody hurt? No, okay. Okay, why don't you tell one of these beautiful officers what's going on? >> My daughter, Laja, in the system for running away consecutively, being Baker Acted time and time again, tried to run away again today because I'm making her clean. I think I've dealt with you before. I've seen you. >> with you? >> Yeah. >> I dealt with you? >> Making her clean. >> Mhm. >> Don't want to clean up, wants to be mouthful and disrespectful, came outside, hid in my truck. My son was getting ready to go. He saw her hiding in the back. I come outside to get her. She running away, don't want to hide. I caught up to her, whooped her ass right back on in this house. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> You have your ID on you? >> Naw, yeah. Where's my ID? >> Where's she at? >> She's in >> She's hiding in the bathroom floor, don't want to get up. Now that the attention that she asked for is here. >> I don't want to be here. Why am I here? >> I understand you don't want to be here, but but explain to me what's going on. >> It's not because I don't want to clean. I want to clean, but she keeps on hitting me and stuff and I don't like that. >> Okay. >> I didn't want to run away and get hit. She kept on just hitting and pushing and pushing and I was just trying to tell myself that I don't want to do that. I don't want to do that. I don't want to go. She wants me to be here and help her clean up. And then she just keep on hitting me and hitting me and hitting me. And I already got a whooping yesterday for something I didn't even do. >> Okay. >> So. >> Okay. Why were you hiding in the truck? >> Because I was planning to run away somewhere else. >> Why were you planning to run away? >> Because I didn't want to get hit no more. >> Okay. All right. Where did you get hit? Yeah. I can see the scratches on your arms. Can I Can you show it? >> Where did your mom hit you? How did she hit you there? >> Mhm. Just with a belt. >> Huh? >> Just with a belt. >> Those Those were caused by a belt? >> Yeah. >> Okay. You don't know where the belt is now? No. Okay. Where else did she She hit you? Huh? Okay. Where else? So, she didn't want to do chores. What chores did you ask her to do? >> Clean the bathroom. She had slime in my bathroom sink and my whole bathroom was stopped up, so I'm making her clean it. >> I got you. >> Same thing as always. Her cleaning up after herself. >> And she made the mess? >> Yeah. Slime in my bathroom sink. Slime, hair, whatever else she played with. >> So, when you told her to clean the bathroom, she didn't want to clean, she started getting mouthy, disrespectful, and then she exited the front door. >> actually acted like she was cleaning up back here. And when I didn't know she was gone until my I told my son to give her a give her some cleaning product and he was like, "She's not in the bathroom. Do you want me to go look for her?" >> Mhm. >> I'm tired of looking. I'm tired of calling. I'm tired of fighting. >> Mhm. >> She got a psychologist on the way over here today to evaluate her. >> Got you. So, I had walked out of residence and then that's when you followed her and found her. Correct? >> Mhm. My son came to the truck cuz he was getting ready to go. And he told me she's in the back of the truck. Come downstairs to get her. >> Mhm. >> She tries to run from me, but he got a hand on her. So, I take her from and she got a whooping all the way back up this out of the steps. Cuz she kept trying to run away then. >> She was doing good at one point. >> No, she wasn't. >> The last time I talked to y'all back over there when you you guys were at the bridge, right? >> She definitely wasn't doing good then. >> I thought some some >> to get her help there. She got put out the bridge. >> I thought some type of change was made, but I guess not. But when you brought her back, then you started going ahead and corporally punished her. >> Then she got whoop she got whoop from the parking lot all up to the house cuz she kept trying to run away. She she wanted me to stop. And if I'd gave her a inch, she would have kept running. So, I made her walk on up the steps. Then when we got up here, she still didn't want to come in the house acting like she was going to jump off the balcony. Saw me with coming, jumped on down cuz she knew that's not what she wanted to do. Got whoop some more for playing, right on back in the house. >> What's your form of whooping? >> Belt >> Okay. >> That's if I can get a lick in because she fight me. She grabs the belt and fight me for the belt. >> She just made allegations of bodily harm. That's why she was trying to get away. >> She trying to get Baker Acted. That's what she trying to do. She trying to get Baker Acted so she know what to tell y'all to get her Baker Acted so she don't have to be here. >> Here you go, Miss Hall. >> She know she has whoop to pay. >> How was she making threats to you? >> She was She was just saying that if I catch you touching this again, I'm going to um I'm going to cut your hands off and stuff like that. Type of threats. Cuz I don't know why I did her anything. So. >> So, what's going on today? Why was it I know I met you before in the past. I don't know if you remember me. >> I don't know. >> No, because your social was trying to run away again and then I caught her right here and then she'd been running around the neighborhood so on and so forth. You guys were and you tried to drag her or whatever. Whatever. I remember you. I've been here plenty of times. What's the incident that happened on today's date? >> Same thing. Uh we were cleaning up and she was supposed to be in the bathroom cleaning and I was getting ready to go to the store to return some stuff. And realized she wasn't in the bathroom cleaning anymore. So I'm looking and now she wasn't there. I tell my mom that she's not there. So she's like "Don't worry about it. Just go to the store and don't worry about it." So I go to down to >> on. Hold on. Guess what? Um what last time What was the last time you were Baker Acted? And where were you taken? Nicholas? Yeah, that's where we're going to go to today, okay? Yeah, but you already said those were my choice so I have to take you. I can't keep you here, okay? Because God forbid you get hurt or you do some something happens to you, then it's my fault. Okay? I have to cuz for a couple that doesn't mean you're in trouble. Are you going to be cool? As long as you're cool, then yeah. Okay? But um you said you wanted to write the same on the form, right? You said you wanted to write the same on the form? Say I say what? That won't mean your mom is in trouble. No, it doesn't It doesn't matter cuz you already told us on camera. Verbally. You're just writing down what you said. Okay? Um No, you don't have to do it. It's up to you. You don't want to do it? Okay, that's fine. Now do me a favor. When you sit down here, put your feet out. I want to see your sandals real quick, okay? >> She wasn't being arrested. She was placed in protective custody under Florida's Baker Act. A law that allows police to temporarily detain someone in crisis for a mental health evaluation. >> So So the same [ __ ] that's usually been going on. Okay. >> Yeah, really like she was doing like a lot of stuff before that even happened. >> Well, let me ask you something. Did your mom tell you, "Hey, go ahead and do the chores" and you felt assigned chores to you guys? >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, she does. >> So, you got assigned chores, right? >> Mhm. >> And then what happened? What was your sister doing that's doing the most? >> What do you mean like Like what Like before like she >> Was Was there any type of argument that your sister didn't want to go ahead and clean up the bathroom or something? >> Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> So, well, your sister was being disrespectful? >> yeah, attitude disrespectful, yeah. >> Name calling? >> Attitude. No, no, not really. But she would do like a lot of talking under her breath and stuff like talking back when she would walk away. >> Mhm. >> Talking under her breath and stuff like that and she would hear it like my mom would hear it. >> And then what happened? >> Hm? >> And then what happened? >> Get that belt. >> So, she got the belt. So, your mom >> No, she would get the belt, but she wouldn't like she would act like she was going to do something, but she she she wasn't >> Did you see any physical altercation when your mom was whipping up your sister in the bathroom? >> In the bathroom? No, no, I I was watching the baby. >> Oh, you're watching the baby? Did So, you heard the commotion that she was going to get the belt. Did your mom say anything crazy that you haven't heard before like I'm going to cut like your sister's arms off. I'm going to cut >> Oh, yeah, I mean like she says that like stuff to like, you know, like scare her, but like she's not Cuz it's a lot of incidents where my sister would go and use my mom's stuff without permission and like leave it like leave it open and you know, stuff would like crawl in it and get dirty and this happened like a lot. >> Okay. So, your sister was getting mouthy, right? Your mom was over there, had the belt, didn't have any type of physical altercation, wasn't whipping her at the time, but saying what? Like she's going to whip her up because if she keeps being mouthy or what What was she doing? What was the reason that she had the belt? >> one, yeah, number one like all the talk back and disrespect. >> Mhm. >> Number two, she would she she's not doing what she's supposed to like she she wasn't cleaning like at all like that's a that's a big thing but she does not ever ever clean up after herself. >> Yeah. >> Like, we would have to I would have to go behind her like a lot and clean up after her, yeah. That bathroom is like it was crazy. Um Was it last week? No, I think it was like 2 weeks ago. Our bathroom has like the toilet has been like like not working for like a minute now. >> Mhm. >> And um It was a smell coming out and we thought it was just like the pipes. >> Yeah. >> So, my mom goes in there. She lifts up the toilet and it's just filled with crap. >> Yeah. >> Filled with crap and maggots. So, I clean it and I I haven't used that bathroom. She she goes in there but I never like knew if she used it or not. So, apparently she like been using that bathroom. >> Who's been using it? >> Huh? >> Your sister been using that bathroom? >> been using that bathroom. So, I go in there. I clean it. This was like 2 weeks ago. I She was She had like just gotten like bakeracted. >> Mhm. >> Like, so I go in the bathroom, clean up the bathroom. >> Got you. >> So, I got I cleaned the toilet real good. >> Okay, so since since what has been using that bathroom lately? Is that Is that the reason Is that the reason why your mom says, "Hey, you've been crapping in the bathroom. You going to go ahead and clean it up?" >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> Okay, so she was assigned to use the bathroom today? >> Then she came back from the bakeract and she kept using the toilet after like she knew that it wasn't working. >> Okay. >> Like, she kept not like crapping but like I went in there. It was like a whole thing of pee in there. >> Got you. >> And then I I went to clean the tub so I could start back using my bathroom. I've been using it. >> Huh? >> No, no, it was me. >> Oh. >> No stress. >> Uh yeah, I've been showering in my mom's bathroom cuz the bathroom's just terrible. So, I'll go in there to clean out the tub so I could like start back showering in my own bathroom. I lift up the mat and it's like bugs and it's pee and you could just You just right in the face. I'm like bro, and it's right after she came back. >> Okay. I know we're getting a little bit off track, right? Let me go ahead and explain what the incident happened today. So, there was an argument between your mom and your sister, right? About this whole bathroom, she's being disrespectful, being rowdy. Um at what point did your sister run out? >> That part, no. >> You don't know? >> When I was getting ready to leave. >> Oh, so you were getting ready to leave to go to the store, right? >> to leave. I saw that she wasn't, you know, where she was supposed to be at. So, I'm like, she's gone again. You want me to go look for her? She's like, "No, don't worry about it. Just go ahead and go to the store and come back." So, I go down to the truck and I turn the truck on, let down the windows. I turn around cuz you know, you don't have no backup camera. I turn around to back out and I see her in the back of the truck. And I was like, "Okay." Then she says, "Wait, I'll just put on some clothes and I'll come down there." So, as I'm coming down she's behind me and she's like opening the door while it's locked, so the alarm goes off. >> Mhm. >> And the door is open. So, I go down there and I catch her right before she can make it out. And yeah, I caught her. Then my mom was right behind me. You know, she gave her the action. And I went back upstairs so I can >> Well, no, no, no, no. >> She She broke something in the back, so I was there trying to like fix what she broke in the back before I went back upstairs and then she was in >> So, your mom went ahead had that belt ready, grabbed your sister, and started whooping her? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> And then you you seen the whooping and stuff like that? >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, on the steps, yeah. But not not the bathroom part, no. >> Okay. >> It's on the steps cuz I was trying to get She was telling me to go upstairs and, you know, get the baby. >> What was your mom saying while she was whooping up your sister? >> Mhm. She wasn't saying nothing cuz she was Well, she What she was just saying let go of the belt cuz my sister likes to fight a lot. >> Mhm. >> Likes to like like actually like fight. So, she was grabbing the belt and like kicking and screaming and yelling help, I'm getting abused. Nobody is abusing her. But yeah, same stuff every time. >> What are you doing, baby? >> Okay. >> She likes to yell abuse. >> And while your sister was yelling help, did you ever think to go ahead and try to help your sister? like hey mom calm down or whatever like let's just take her back inside? >> She's been doing stuff all morning. She just got suspended from school. She's been doing stuff like all week like Nah. I didn't feel no type of sympathy. >> I got you. >> Did she use two different belts? >> Did she? >> Yeah, she used this one and she said a black one but she can't find the black one right now. >> Hold on to it. Is this your guys' car? >> Yes. >> This is your only car? >> Mhm. >> That's the one that you guys use, right? Was that brown belt for the punishment? >> Mhm. >> Okay. Uh my partner said there's another black belt in the vault but you can't >> take them and throw them so I couldn't find it in her room but they the same belts. >> You can decide at any time to exercise these rights and not answer any questions or make any statements. Do you understand each of these rights I explained to you? >> I do. >> Having these rights in mind, do you wish to speak to us now? >> I would like an attorney present. >> You would like an attorney present? >> Yes. Do you have a partner in law at the center and officer Whipple? >> They're not working at this time. They work afternoon shift. I'm not too sure about Tanner's schedule but I know Whipple works afternoon shift. All right, stand up for me. Turn around and place your hands behind your back. >> Why? >> You're being arrested for child abuse. >> Can you get my phone to put it somewhere so he know what's going >> I I'll get your son in a second. And we'll go on from that. He's 17 years old. So um he looks like he has enough knowledge to go ahead and take care of himself as adult as well as your daughter. >> So I can't talk to a lawyer at all. >> You said you don't want to speak to me without attorney present so I will read you your >> the only way? >> I already read you your Miranda rights so you don't want to speak to me so I will >> I was getting arrested if I didn't talk right now. You said I have the right to an attorney present before any questions. >> Yeah, and I'm not asking you any questions. So, we'll go on from there. I have enough probable cause to go ahead and arrest you for your child abuse. >> I did not abuse her. We can talk, but I I cannot leave my children. >> you didn't want to talk to me. >> Without an attorney, yes. >> Everything you already said to me basically when I got on scene was all a spontaneous utterance at this point. >> Can you see this the back of my hand? Okay. Go ahead and turn. >> Turn to the side there. >> Ariana Lekhraj Hall was officially taken into custody. She was transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where she was booked on one count of child abuse without great bodily harm. During her initial appearance, Hall's bond was set at $2,500. At the time of her arrest, records indicated that she declined to provide a statement to investigators, choosing instead to exercise her right to legal counsel.