The breakdown of basic respect in American families has reached a new low.
What used to be settled with words now turns into criminal violence.
And a Florida woman used two body parts to attack her family over one missing item that will leave you speechless.
Florida Woman Chokes Mom and Grabs Brother’s Privates Over PlayStation Game
Here’s a story that shows you exactly where we are as a society.
Twenty-one-year-old Alexandra Dominguez just got convicted of domestic battery by strangulation and regular battery in Marion County, Florida.
A jury took exactly 20 minutes to find her guilty.
What was this violent crime spree about?
A missing PlayStation 4 game.
You read that right – this woman choked her mother and sexually assaulted her brother because she couldn’t find a video game.
The whole mess started on April 24, 2024, when Dominguez followed her mom and brother home from a park to pick up her gaming console.
They told her to wait outside while they grabbed the PlayStation 4.
When they handed it over, Dominguez lost her mind because a game and the original box were missing.
What happened next would make any parent question what went wrong with an entire generation.
The Attack That Shows How Far We’ve Fallen
Dominguez didn’t just yell or storm off like a normal person having a bad day.
She grabbed her mother by the throat and choked her for a full minute.
When her brother tried to intervene and protect their mom, Dominguez grabbed him by the groin and squeezed.
She also yanked on his beard and kept hitting him.
Think about that for a second.
This woman was willing to strangle her own mother – the person who brought her into this world – over a video game.
And when her brother tried to help, she sexually assaulted him.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office found injuries on both victims that matched exactly what they said happened.
Deputies tried calling Dominguez after she fled the scene, but she wouldn’t pick up the phone.
So they got an arrest warrant and tracked her down.
Justice Moves Fast When the Evidence is Clear
Here’s what gives you hope about the system still working sometimes.
The jury heard the evidence and made their decision in 20 minutes.
Twenty minutes.
That’s faster than it takes most people to decide what to order for lunch.
Assistant State Attorney Lillian Rozsa presented a case so solid that jurors didn’t need to think twice about it.
The physical evidence was right there.
The victims’ stories lined up perfectly.
And Dominguez’s own actions after the attack – running away and refusing to talk to police – told the whole story.
Judge Peter Brigham’s courtroom saw swift justice delivered the way it should be.
What This Really Shows Us
Dominguez couldn’t handle the minor disappointment of a missing video game box.
So she tried to kill her mother.
That’s the level of emotional control we’re dealing with now.
These people can’t handle the smallest frustration without resorting to criminal violence.
And this isn’t some isolated incident – it’s happening everywhere.
Look at the college campuses where students have meltdowns if they hear an opinion they don’t like.
Look at the adults throwing tantrums in grocery stores and on airplanes.
Look at the road rage incidents over someone driving too slow.
We’ve raised a generation that thinks violence is an acceptable response to not getting their way.
The Real Victims Nobody Talks About
Here’s what really gets me about this story.
That mother and brother are going to carry the trauma of this attack forever.
Every family gathering, every holiday, every time they see Dominguez – if they ever do again – they’ll remember the day she tried to strangle their mom over a PlayStation game.
These family bonds that used to be sacred, that used to mean something, got destroyed by a grown woman who couldn’t act like an adult for five minutes.
And for what?
A video game that could have been replaced easily.
The brother who got sexually assaulted for trying to protect his mother – how do you even process that?
Your own sister attacks you like a predator because you stepped in to save your mom’s life.
That family is broken now, and it didn’t have to be.
What Comes Next
Dominguez is looking at up to five years in prison for the strangulation charge alone.
The regular battery charge could add another year.
But here’s the thing – even if she serves every day of that sentence, what happens when she gets out?
Does she magically develop the emotional control and respect for others that she never learned growing up?
Or does she just become someone else’s problem?
This is the kind of person our society is producing now.
People who think their minor inconveniences justify violent attacks on their own families.
The scary part isn’t that this happened once.
The scary part is that it’s happening everywhere, and most of the time it doesn’t make the news.
How many other families are dealing with this kind of violence right now?
How many parents are walking on eggshells around their adult children because they’re afraid of what might happen if they say no?
The Breakdown That Nobody Wants to Address
Here’s what nobody in charge wants to talk about.
This isn’t a mental health problem.
This isn’t a gun problem.
This isn’t a poverty problem.
This is a character problem.
We’ve stopped teaching people that your feelings don’t give you the right to hurt others.
We’ve stopped teaching people that you don’t always get what you want.
We’ve stopped teaching people that other human beings – including your own family – deserve basic respect and consideration.
Instead, we’ve told an entire generation that if something makes them angry or upset, everyone else has to fix it for them.
That their comfort matters more than other people’s safety.
So you get Alexandra Dominguez, a 21-year-old woman who thinks it’s reasonable to choke her mother over a missing video game.
And the truly terrifying part?
She’s not unique anymore.
¹ Fifth Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office, "Woman Convicted of Domestic Battery by Strangulation," Social Media Release, September 2025.
² Marion County Sheriff’s Office, "Arrest Report – Alexandra Dominguez," Case File, April 24, 2024.
³ Law&Crime, "’Grabbed his groin and squeezed’: Woman assaulted brother and choked mom during argument over missing PlayStation 4 game," September 4, 2025.
⁴ Staff Report, "Ocala woman found guilty of choking mother, attacking brother during argument over PlayStation 4," September 3, 2025.
