Woman accused of leaving boyfriend with ‘a visible injury to his nose and blood running down his mouth’

EUSTIS, Fla. – Talking behind someone’s back is rarely good and it reportedly led to violence, twice, in this instance.

A police officer in Florida got to the victim’s home, where the suspect was also staying, and she had already left. Picking out the victim wasn’t difficult.

“[He] had a visible injury to his nose, and blood running down his mouth,” the officer reported. “[The victim] did refuse medical treatment.

“[The victim] told me he was in his bedroom laying down and heard his girlfriend, Mykayla Ashae Franks, who he has been in a romantic relationship with for approximately three weeks, talking about him to their guests, [a woman] and [a man], in the living room.

“Mykayla began to say [the victim] cheated on her in the past by letting another woman sleep in his bed. [The victim] said he went to the living room to confront Mykayla when Makayla told [him] she was going to hit him with a wine bottle.”

The police affidavit didn’t say anything else about a wine bottle;

just that “Mykayla then started hitting him with both of her hands in his face, so he separated from her by stepping outside, in the front of the residence.”

Then, “after a few minutes” outside his own home, “he went back inside to put on a T-shirt and Mykayla started to hit him again with both of her hands, causing him to bleed from his nose.

“[The victim] said Mykayla has been staying at the residence since Thanksgiving.

“Officers asked [the victim] if he would provide a statement, and he stated he did not want to. [The victim] also advised he did not wish to press charges.”

The officer didn’t write anything about the victim fighting back or defending himself.

The officer couldn’t write anything about Frank’s condition, since she’d run away. This all happened before 1 a.m. last Dec. 5, 2023 – a year ago. She wouldn’t be arrested for another 11 months.

“[The victim] said he did not see what direction Mykayla went,” the officer wrote, “due to him focusing on calling the police.”

Then, the officer spoke to her guests, who were apparently no help.

“I spoke with [the man],” she wrote, “and he said he did not want to speak about the incident.

“I then spoke with [the woman]. She said Mykayla heard [the victim] saying Mykayla’s best friend was hot, and it made Mykayla mad, so she got ‘hot’ with him.

“I asked her what this meant and if a physical altercation occurred, and she would not tell me. I asked where Makayla went, and [the woman] stood there in silence and said she didn’t want to speak about that. 

“Officers searched the area for Mykayla, but could not locate her.”

There was one other person in the home. Franks had a three-month-old baby there “at the time of this incident,” and at the time of her escape, the officer wrote.

The woman told the cop she and the man were the infant’s godparents, “and they would be staying with the child at the residence.“ Then, in the morning, they’d take the baby to the woman’s mother’s house.

“I was able to see the child in the living room and the child did not seem to be in distress,” the officer wrote.

Authorities tried to call the state Department of Children and Families eight times, but their phones were down. Eventually, they got through and agents said “they will be investigating this case.”

Franks didn’t have any battery convictions, but the officer wrote, “Due to this being a domestic incident, a warrant will be filed for Mykayla.”

A judge signed the arrest warrant more than a month later, on Jan. 19, 2024. Then, it took much longer to arrest Franks. That happened early on Nov. 6, 2024. There’s no word where she spent all that time; or the baby, for that matter.

Franks, who is now 27, was charged with simple domestic battery. She spent more than 30 hours in jail before her release in lieu of $1,000 bond.

She also signed a No Victim Contact Order which said she cannot “have any contact with the other person involved in the charge,” or she “can be arrested, brought back to jail, and [her] bond can be revoked. Any violation of this order may constitute a separate criminal charge.”