VH1‘s “Flavor Of Love” star Nicole Essigmann aka Hotlanta was arrested on two counts of simple battery and cruelty to children after a violent accident involving a child in Georgia on January 30, 2010.

The 29 year-old reality star and mother-of-three, who was listed at 5’4″ and 130 lbs, was released after one day in custody when a company called “Bond James Bond” paid her $2,500 bond.

Hotlanta told TMZ that her 4 year-old son was never in danger. The incident happened when she and her mother, Jill Essigmann, went to her baby daddy’s, Jerry Robinson, home to pick up her son. Jill went inside. They had an altercation and Jerry emerged with her in a headlock.

Nicole tells TMZ: “I did what I had to do … Anybody in my shoes would have done the same thing if they saw their mom in a headlock. I laid the smackdown.” According to Nicole, the child abuse charge was the result of her son witnessing the incident. Mother Jill was also arrested on a count of simple battery.

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