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   From: Davecross@kremlin.ru   
      
   The mother of the one of the teens charged in the caught-on-   
   camera beatdown of a 15-year-old Brooklyn girl defended her son   
   as a good kid Saturday — but admitted she was furious with him.   
      
   “When I saw the video I literally wanted to kill him with my own   
   hands,” said Donna Howell, 42, while waiting for her son’s   
   arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court. “I was very, very pissed   
   off.”   
      
   Howell’s 14-year-old is one of five teens between the ages of 14   
   and 17 who were charged with robbery and gang assault after   
   turning themselves in at the 77th Precinct stationhouse Friday   
   night.   
      
   “He didn’t want to go at first and I said, ‘No you’re going to   
   go, you’re going to turn yourself in,’" she recalled. Howell   
   then left the house to run an errand, and found her son gone   
   when she came back.   
      
   “He had just walked and turned himself in [to police],” she said.   
      
   Four of five suspects who turned themselves in were arraigned in   
   Brooklyn Criminal Court on Saturday night — all of them   
   accompanied by their mothers. The Daily News is withholding   
   their names because of their ages.   
      
   Judge Deepa Ambekar denied prosecutors’ request for $10,000 bail   
   on each suspect, and instead released the boys on their own   
   recognizance.   
      
   However, Ambekar imposed curfews on each suspect, and ordered   
   them to stay away from the victim.   
      
   None of the suspects knew the victim, lawyers said during the   
   arraignment hearings. Fourteen more suspects are sought in the   
   attack.   
      
   Surveillance video of the assault sparked condemnation from   
   elected officials.   
      
   “I have never seen in my lifetime this kind of incident where   
   young men perpetrate this kind of violence on an innocent   
   woman," City Councilman Robert Cornegy (D-Brooklyn) said   
   Saturday. “I remember growing up under mob mentality in   
   Brooklyn. There were still rules and the rules said that women   
   were untouchable.”   
      
   The video shows the 15-year-old girl being chased to the corner   
   of Utica Ave. and Sterling Place on Thursday afternoon before   
   being knocked to the ground. A horde of teens then descend upon   
   her, repeatedly kicking and punching the victim as she curls up   
   to avoid the blows, the video shows.   
      
   The attackers stole the girl’s sneakers, cell phone and a debit   
   card before scattering.   
      
   The victim’s neighbors describe her as a quiet girl who lives   
   with her mother and sister.   
      
   “She doesn’t get in trouble, she doesn’t deserve that," said 13-   
   year-old neighbor Jacob Black. "She’s a basketball player,   
   that’s all she does.”   
      
   “She goes to school and comes home. She’s quiet," said a next-   
   door neighbor who declined to share her name. “Those were   
   animals. I can’t see how those young boys did that to her.”   
      
   Howell said her son, the middle child of three boys, has had   
   little interaction with police and she was shocked to hear of   
   his alleged involvement.   
      
   “I don’t know what else I can say to them [the victim’s parents]   
   except I’m so sorry, I feel very bad for her,” she said. "I’m a   
   woman, and if he had a sister he would never want anyone to   
   treat her like that.”   
      
   https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-teens-charged-   
   beat-down-brooklyn-girl-20200307-oekmav2dgbhf7nwdo64bb5hwfm-   
   story.html   
        
      
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