Two teenage girls were charged with assault late Friday, after a 78-year-old woman was beaten by the two girls at a subway station in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn days earlier. Jazmine Watson, 16, of Brooklyn, was charged with second-degree assault, police said. Another girl, 15, was also charged with assault, as reported on Daily News New York.
The two girls were arrested after authorities said both of the girls' mothers turned in their daughters to the police. One mother saw her 16-year-old daughter's picture on TV as surveillance video captured the girls attacking the woman on the southbound platform of the Franklin Avenue C Train station on Fulton Street around 3:15 p.m. Thursday. .
Police said while on a train at the station the victim asked a woman to take her foot off the seat so she could sit down. Police said the suspect cursed at her. Later, when they were out on the platform, police said both suspects attacked the elderly victim, punching and kicking her in the face, head and body.
A girl who appears in surveillance video wearing white attacked first, witnesses said. Hamilton, A CBS2 reporter, carried the woman up the station steps after the attack and called police. Meanwhile, police said the suspects ages 15 and 16 hopped on an outbound C Train and bolted.
The victim was taken to New York Methodist Hospital with injuries to her face and knee. Commuters at the station said they were disgusted over the incident. Police spoke with the woman's daughter, who said her mother is home and doing well, but understandably traumatized. She said their family is grateful to Hamilton and the first respondents who helped her.
