Daycare owner: 'I was holding my own' in fight with father (update)

[Omaha Steve]

Yesterday's LBN story: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141233317

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/e33a8472460d4aac9c4bdf0bfd9aeb4b/daycare-owner-i-was-holding-my-own-fight-father

By AMY BETH HANSON Oct. 15, 2015 1:49 PM EDT

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana daycare owner who authorities say was severely beaten after she refused to hand over three children to their drunken father said she was holding her own against him, until his girlfriend hit her in the face with a snow shovel.

Francis Joseph Jackson did not have legal custody of his children and was not allowed to have contact with them when authorities say he attacked Martha McClure, owner of Martha's Mini Daycare in Ronan.

McClure said she knew what the consequences would be for keeping the man from his children, who are all under the age of 4.

"I knew he was going to throttle me, he was going to pound me, but he wasn't going to get back in the house," McClure said Wednesday in a phone interview from her daycare.

FULL story at link.