News has arrived about Hotlana from “Flavor of Love” being arrested recently.

The charges are reportedly two criminal counts of battery and one allegation of child cruelty. Her arrest in Atlanta, Georgia occurred in January but is just making the tabloid reports this week.

There are very few details of this case available precisely because it involved a minor child. The records are therefore unavailable to the public so we cannot know the specific circumstances of the offense that is alleged, nor can we know the name of the child involved. Only a judge can make those records public. We can report that she is free on $2,500 bail. Such a low bail amount suggests that the offense is perhaps minor in nature so there is probably more to this story than the headline suggests.

The celebrity gossip site TMZ is reporting that the incident involves her 4-year-old son. They say that he was present for an argument between Nicole Essignmann (“Hotlanta”) and a man named Jerry Robinson who is reportedly the boy’s father. She reportedly told the celebrity news site that her mom (named Jill Essigmann) was placed in a headlock by Robinson and that she took action to help her mama. How that resulted in a charge of child cruelty is unknown. She tells the site that she did not strike her own child, which some will interpret as a denial of the police complaint.

Quote of the day: “I did what I had to do [under the circumstances]. Anybody else in my shoes would have done the same thing if they saw their mom in a headlock. I laid the smack-down.” Yes indeed, reality shows and smackdowns seem to go together.