Background: Destany Scott (Stark County Jail/WOIO). Inset: Cellphone video allegedly shows Destany Scott attacking an 11-year-old at a park in Canton, Ohio, on April 18, 2025 (The Dishong family/WOIO).
A 20-year-old woman in Ohio is facing criminal charges for allegedly attacking an 11-year-old girl while she was playing on a playground, with cellphone video released by the victim’s parents purportedly showing her pummeling the child.
At one point during the assault, Destany Scott “repeatedly slammed [the child’s] head off the metal portion of a slide,” according to an incident report filed with the Canton Police Department, which was obtained by local CBS affiliate WOIO. She also allegedly told the victim’s mother, Paige Dishong, that she hopes her daughter dies.
