OCALA, Fla. – An 81-year-old Ocala woman was arrested on allegations of pepper-spraying children, ages 3 and 6, as they were playing with bubbles outside their home.

Ada Anderson was arrested Saturday on a felony battery charge.

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The Marion County Sheriff’s Office said in a social media post made on Monday that deputies were called to home on Pine Court Drive for a disturbance.

According to an arrest affidavit, a woman said she and her daughters were in their driveway playing with bubble toys when their neighbor, identified by authorities as Anderson, walked to a fence separating their properties and sprayed “bear mace” at them.

The mother said the spray touched her and the girls and her lungs were affected, according to the affidavit. The 6-year-old girl said her

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