On the sunny Saturday last March, Inez O’Brien, 6, and his mother, Ellena, headed home to Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn after leaving mother-haired cuts.
They left the J train on Halsey Street, planning to appear in a winery on their way.
When PS 137 passed, Inez’s school saw a group of five preteen, all around 11 or 12, which were obviously out to cause problems.
The children had surrounded a car on the street and were attacking it with the plastic barrels of their Nerf toy guns.
Once the car took off, the gang sought a new goal.
“Let’s get that lady now!” One shouted.
They swarmed Inez and his mother, pushing Nerf’s weapons on their faces and shoots at a painful range.
A gun hit Inez in his mouth, spelling his lip.
“Stop, this is scaring us!” Ellena cried, while pushing the toys.
But a successful child hitting Ellena’s head before the group ran out.
Ellena went to the hospital and needed five basic foods to close the bloody wound.
There, she with a food deliveryman with a perforated face that had the team found with the children themselves.
At home, Inez was hysterical.
His 4 -year -old little brother saw his mother soaked with blood and vomited.
When Patrol officers led Ellena by the neighborhood, he identified two of the attackers.
A youth 15 pounds and five feet and two feet accused of assault for serious crime for hitting Ellena with “intention of causing serious physical injuries.”
But the NYPD youth desktop had to release the bully from the size of an adult “due to age.”
And that’s all.
Without monitoring, and certainly without justice.
“We want responsibility,” Ellena Matt’s husband told me.
“What is happening? It’s something horrible that children can run and assault a woman and her son.”
But that is exactly what New York now encourages.
In recent years, the savage, young people who eliminate random group violence, only because of its emotion, has increased because the consequences for this have evaporated.
“There is more wild because we make it clear that we will cut the children every break,” said a former prosecutor of the Bronx.
“The system is configured to get children out of the system.”
In 2018, the state law to “raise age” largely eliminated the criminal consequences for young people aged 16 and 17.
Since then, any miscellaneous people committed and 83% of their serious crimes in the Family Court, including 75% of serious violent crimes.
Victims of these crimes cannot discover the results equally.
Worse, in 2022, governor Kathy Hochul signed ” Hendero Age, “a crazy statute that made criminals between the ages of 7 and 11 years old are no longer eligible to be accused as” youth criminals. “”
Even if an 11 -year -old shoots or stabs another child in front or his school. anything In the absence of a “completed murder” – Hello, the tasks in custody.
What’s wrong with you?
Your family offers Volunteer Social Services.
That’s all.
“You cannot put in a police car, even if they fired a gun,” said Kevin O’Connor, former New York police assistant commissioner for youth strategies. “There is no criminal appeal.”
Because they are no longer processed, we have no idea how many crimes are committed by children under 11 years.
But in 2021, before this law, cool, the infinite license of young people for patients, there were 150 of this type in the state of New York, including 50 per assault.
The Office of the State of Services of the Court and the Court and the family promises that the new “differential response services” voluntarily offered the young criminals provide “opportunities and supports that promote racial, ethnic and gender equity, and general well -being.”
I doubt that the two girls in the group who attacked Little Inez only needed a “gender equity support” of fashion to push them in form.
Checking these “reforms” is a murky Family Court system that gives the department of probation a great control over the destiny of young people.
In the case of Ellena, probation would have decided if her only attacker arrested, she simply diverted to social services, instead of facing the criminal.
How effective are thesis services?
How often children surround them?
Nobody. Knows.
It is not surprising that NYCS youth rose 69% around the last five years, while the assault of serious youth crimes, as experienced, increased 119%.
That group of children went home to their beds after a fun day of terrorization of innocent citizens only for the jollies.
They are not afraid of repercussions, reproaches or even stigma.
They willpower Do it again.
Meanwhile, Inez couldn’t sleep that night.
She did not do it because to get out of her house or go to the park.
New York is choosing to endanger innocent children.
Our laws can now not differentiate between making the world look malicious and unstable, such as the attack that traumatized Inez, and fears the consequences that enforce social rules and limits.
Inez, and all children in New York deserve better.
Hannah E. Meyers is a member and director of Surveillance and Public Security at the Manhattan Institute.