According to prosecutors and sources, three females who were 16 years old stomped, beat, and even tased a girl who was 15 years old while she was inside a subway station in Queens about a week ago.
At approximately three o’clock in the afternoon on June 2, the aggressive gang allegedly followed the sophomore student from William Cullen Bryant High School as she made her way to the nearby 46th Street M and R train station.
They were allegedly prepared to commit what Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz referred to as “an outrageous display of bullying and brutality.”
The district attorney’s office stated that the juvenile perpetrators, who were part of a group of adolescents, trapped the girl on the staircase and repeatedly punched, kicked, and stomped on her head, face, and body. Additionally, they attempted to steal her backpack and tased her.
The teen victim was taken to the hospital following the attack, but according to the officials, they are currently healing.
In connection with the incident, two of the teenagers, both of whom are juniors at the same school and who reside in Elmhurst, were taken into custody and arraigned on Tuesday.
The allegations against them include attempted gang assault and attempted robbery, according to the prosecutors.
According to the Daytona Beach District Attorney’s Office, both were placed into an intense community monitoring program that was overseen by probation.
The judge, Bruna DiBiase, issued an order for them to appear in court on June 18, and if they are found guilty, they could face a sentence of fifteen years in prison.
“A high school student was mercilessly tased, kicked, punched and stomped on by a mob of fellow students at a train station after dismissal from William Cullen Bryant High School,” Katz stated. “This will not be acceptable behavior here in Queens and I will hold students accountable for this behavior to the extent the law allows. We are grateful that the victim is recovering. The investigation is continuing into the conduct of other individuals.”
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The third suspect, who is 16 years old, was taken into custody on Thursday, and an arraignment is anticipated to take place later in the day, according to reports.
The horrifying attack comes at the same time that New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch disclosed that the rate of youth violence in the Big Apple has skyrocketed since 2018.
Tisch laid the blame for this increase on the controversial “Raise the Age” statute that the state has in place.
