Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Ashanti Norman got beat up by her dad, Jonathan Norman, who accused her of stealing $2,500.
This is the story of Ashanti Norman.
And I think the violence she survived, the institutional failures around her, and the way Black girls are left unprotected should be your next rabbit hole.
Let’s talk about a case that is not on the news, not in a documentary, and not treated with urgency. A case that should terrify anyone who cares about the safety of Black children.
Ashanti Norman shared her story publicly on FB after police ignored her. She described going to her father’s house to get clothes, only for him to accuse her of stealing twenty five hundred dollars. She told him she did not have his money. He kept calling, demanding answers, and insisting she took it. His girlfriend joined in and questioned her too.
✴️ He went to her grandfather’s house, searched her belongings, and when he found nothing, he assaulted her. She said he hit her in the face, pulled her hair, and forced her into his car while his girlfriend continued to accuse her of theft. They checked security footage and found the money in the Walmart bag Ashanti had been telling them about. Even with proof, he chose violence.
✴️ At his house, the abuse escalated. According to Ashanti, he beat her, shoved a sock in her mouth, tied a shoelace around her head to keep the sock in place, tied her hands behind her back, and whipped her with a dryer cord. His girlfriend witnessed it and did nothing to protect her.
✴️ He then isolated her in a shed outside, still tied up, still gagged, still begging him to believe she did not steal the money. He locked her in, left her on the floor, and continued interrogating her. When she asked to look around the house to prove her innocence, he kept beating her. He cut her shirt off and hit her again. He then held a gun to her forehead and threatened her while walking her back to her grandfather’s home.
✴️ Ashanti reached her grandfather’s house still tied up, her clothes cut off, her face injured. Her family saw her condition and tried to make sense of what had happened. Her father followed her inside and continued to accuse her of theft. When her grandfather woke up and confronted him, her father eventually said she did not need to give him money anymore and told her to never contact him again. He then went outside and destroyed her phone.
✴️ The police arrived. According to Ashanti, they questioned her, but instead of treating her as a victim of kidnapping, assault, false imprisonment, and torture, they focused on the theft accusation her father texted her mother about. They allowed him to frame the narrative even while throwing away her belongings and blaming her for the violence he inflicted.
Why I think this is important:
Because the story of Ashanti Norman is not only about one man’s brutality. It is about how easy it is for Black girls to be victimized, disbelieved, and abandoned by every system that is supposed to protect.
It is about how quickly adults excuse violence when the abuser is a parent and the victim is their child.
It is about how controlling parents weaponize authority, how community members stay silent, and how the police often choose to ignore cases where the victim is a Black child instead of a white one.
This story highlights something uncomfortable. Black girls are expected to be strong, to endure, to survive. And when they are brutalized, people minimize it. They call it discipline. They call it a family matter. They call it anything except the truth.
Ashanti’s injuries make the truth undeniable. Her fear makes it undeniable. Her words make it undeniable. What happened to her is a crime. What happened to her is abuse. And what happened to her is exactly what happens when a society does not consider Black girls worthy of protection.
Ashanti wrote: “hey my name is ashanti norman and i came on here to tell my story about a man i once considered my father. i don’t want nobody to feel sorry for me i just want my story to be heard the police is not really doing anything in my eyes. on Friday evening i went to my dad house to get me some clothes to go to my gdad house. Around 12 am that night my dad called me n asked me did i take some money from him i told him no he hung up and called me again asking me again i told him no again the next phone call he sed he was otw to come get me from my gdad house den his gf courtney called asking me about the money i told her i didnt take no money from the house i also asked her why would i take the money she said she dont know and said i dont have to take it because she got a job and she got to work. he came to my gdad house i told him to check my things for the money its was 2500 dollars thats was missing. he didnt believe me tho he told me to go outside once i got outside he hit me in my face and was pulling me hair i got inside the car courtney was still otp she was saying where his money n xyz. they pulled up camera from earlier that day from when i got my clothes and he was like the money was inside of the walmart bag that i had i kept trying to tell both of them that wasnt the money they both didnt believe me. I hung the phone up on courtney den i started asking him why would i take the money from him he den told me he not no dumb nigga he know what money look like he also said “since you want to steal from me like a nigga on the streets imma treat you like u a nigga on the streets” mind you this is supposed to be my father talking to me like this. we got to his house he took me inside the room i was staying in he was hitting me in my face and was still asking me about the money i ketp saying i didnt have it every time i did he would hit me again. den he asked courtney for a sock he got a sock put it inside of my mouth got a shoe string tied around my mouth to stop the sock from coming out of my mouth den he took his shoe off his foot turned me around and tied my hands behind my back and he got a dyer cord and started beating me with it he was still asking me bout the money i stoped saying i didnt have the money because i knew he would continue to hit me with the dyer cord. the gf courtney was knocking on the door telling him to open the door she was bout to call the police to press charges on me for stealing the money he told her “no this is dope money” after hitting me a couple more times he took me out of the room and courtney was standing right there n she seen me tied up and the sock in my mouth den he took me outside put me in of a shed outside of the house i sat inside of a chair he told me no i cant sit in no chair he took the chair i sat on the floor remember im still tied up and the sock is still in my mouth he was still asking me bout the money n he was like you dont know where it at he closed the door locked the door and out the chair under the doorknob like 10 or 15 minutes he came back n was still asking me he took me back inside of the house in the room he asked courtney for some scissors she bought them he cut my shirt off me n he was still hitting me with the dyer cord i told him to let me look around the house for the money but i couldn’t really look around because my hands was still tied up i stopped looking and i was asking them why would i take the money and stuff like that i walked out of they room he hit me again with the dyer cord across my back i den asked him to take me back to my gdad house acting like the money was there to get some type of help then he asked courtney where he gun was n he sed yk if we go back to your gdad house u getting other ppl involved while tapping the clip of the gun on my forehead we was walking outside courtney ketp asking “so you did have the money” and i wasn’t answering her we left the house i was still tied up my shirt was cut off i wasnt saying anything we got to my gdad house he told me to go get the money my sisters and brother n cousin was all up they all seen me tied up and shirt all cut off face beat up i was acting like the money was there i went inside my gdad room trying to wake him up the first time it didnt work i was trying to tell my cousin to call the police but he was following me around the house he was bout to make me leave again den i told him let me go in one more time i went to my gdad room acting like the money was in there den my gdad had woke up he asked my dad wat was going on he told him i stole some money from his house he realized i was lying and he tried to make me come back with him n i started yelling n he was pulling me n stuff n he sed to me okay you dont have to give me the money dont ever contact me again and all my stuff that was at his house he was throwing all of it away he had me phone he went outside and broke it n bought it back to me and sed her go your phone n he left i yelled to my gdad and cousin to call the police. the police came n was asking me what was going on and stuff he texted my momma and sed your daughter stole 2500 dollars from me dont bring her back around her and he was throwing all my clothes away LITERALLY EVERYTHING I HAD WAS OVER THERE my school things and all. maybe 20 or 30 minutes later he texted her again and said i didnt have the money and he was otw to come get me and bring me home n he felt like shit. i dont know what me telling this story is going to do for me but i think i will make me feel better with this story out because every body who he be around think he is just this good guy but just put his first child/daughter threw this. ill never in my life think something like this would happen to me and especially by my own dad everybody around us knew we had a bond out this world just for him to do something like this to me. i don’t really even cry thinking bout the situation because it feel so unreal and his sister april i hate her she said i deserve this after everything i put him through his momma is acting like this is normal she still yet haven’t asked me was i okay after the situation. i really dont have no words towards them tbh i know god got my back and him n his gf will get there karma.”
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