A mother from Michigan has learned her fate for abandoning her 1-year-old son on Florida‘s Daytona Beach. The boy’s teenage brother reportedly called the cops on her on the day in question — claiming she was “possessed by demons.”

Shamika Mitchell, 38, was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison for her son’s abandonment. She was found guilty in November 2024 of aggravated child abuse and unlawful desertion of a child.

Florida’s Seventh Judicial Circuit Judge Karen Foxman said Mitchell had been using marijuana, drinking alcohol and possibly using meth while caring for the child, who was in the surf and could have drowned if he had not been rescued, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported.

The newspaper reported her public defender saying the defendant struggled through a difficult childhood and had a psychotic episode at the time of the incident.

A Florida man and woman are behind bars after they allegedly attacked a man who wanted to have sex while tied up on the beach.

According to a probable cause arrest affidavit, a “frantic” man flagged down a Volusia County Sheriff’s deputy around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 1900 block of Ocean Shore Boulevard in Ormond by the Sea. He was bleeding heavily throughout his body. The man told a deputy he had been jumped by a man and woman on the beach.

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He said he and a woman, later identified as 18-year-old Alana Cagle, agreed to come to the beach where she would tie him up and then have sex, the affidavit said. Cagle picked him up at his home and they drove to Bicentennial Park where they parked the car and walked to the beach, he stated. When they got to the beach he started to feel “odd vibes” from Cagle because she was sitting about 5 feet away from him. Nonetheless, she took out a yellow rope that she brought with her and began to tie him up.

It was at this point that the victim saw another man approaching them, the affidavit said. He tried to untie himself but Cagle jumped on top of his legs. He was able to fight her off and began to run away. But the other man, later identified as 24-year-old Wayne Streeter, tracked him down and tackled him. Streeter allegedly began choking him while Cagle punched him in the face. Per deputies, Cagle then pulled out a hatchet and began hitting him with it all over his body.