According to Tony Herbert, a longtime community organizer, the victim is his cousin, and the attack undoubtedly had long-term consequences in addition to the physical harm.
She is currently traumatized. She’s a little uncomfortable,” he clarified.
“[Her] mother is just devastated right now to think that she sent her daughter to school only to find out later that she was assaulted in the city where she was born and raised.”
Although Eric Adams, the president of Brooklyn Borough, denounced the attack, the neighborhood has long struggled with this issue.
As evidence that criminal incidences involving juveniles are not new, the NYPD had just recently appointed over 300 officers to operate as youth coordinators.
In order to crack down on crimes involving offenders under the age of 18. Teens are known for getting into trouble, but this is a whole other level of mischief.
