Detroit Woman Sentenced For Attacking 10-Year-Old Girl At Troy Mall

TROY, MI — A Detroit woman was sentenced to probation Tuesday for an unprovoked attack of a 10-year-old girl at a Troy shopping mall two months ago.

Reanna Valentine, 25, was sentenced to 18 months probation and ordered to serve four days of community service after pleading guilty to the assault. Before learning her sentence, she told the court she had "no malice or ill-will" in the attack, according to Fox 2 Detroit.

"A group of young ladies walked past me really fast and too close, and that triggered me and psychosis set in, causing me to react," Valentine said.

Police said the 10-year-old girl was walking with her dad and a group of her friends through the food court at the Somerset Collection at 4:43 p.m. on Jan. 12, when "for no apparent reason," the woman grabbed the young girl's head and slammed it into a glass display case.

The child told officers that the woman then walked away, laughing and smiling after shoving her, according to police.

"The attack appeared unprovoked and for no apparent reason," according to the police report.

Valentine returned to the mall the day after the attack and was arrested by security who recognized her.