A 79-year-old girl was assaulted within the foyer of her Manhattan residence constructing by a younger lady who adopted her inside Monday and unleashed a flurry of punches.
Claudia Connor, a retired psychological well being skilled, recounted the merciless assault in her West seventeenth Avenue residence constructing to The Put up — saying she’s “by no means seen a baby try this.”
Connor was heading again dwelling round 11:50 a.m. after strolling her canine when she encountered a bunch of kids “play combating” in entrance of her Chelsea constructing.
“There have been about 4 of them and numerous children on the steps already,” Connor mentioned. “I advised them to depart.”
The septuagenarian and her small canine made their manner contained in the constructing and initially prevented the troublemakers from pursuing the confrontation any additional.
However one boy and one lady from the group pressured their manner in as a neighbor opened the internal foyer door.
“I attempted to get them to depart and the lady punched me within the head numerous instances,” Connor recounted, estimating she might’ve been hit “20 instances” however “wasn’t counting.”
“The boy tried to get her to depart however she was not having it,” Connor mentioned. “It simply acquired an excessive amount of. I’ve by no means seen something like that.”
Connor mentioned that teenagers loitering outdoors her constructing has been an issue for the previous decade.
“We’ve been by way of hell with these children,” she mentioned.
The residence constructing is throughout the road from NYC Lab Faculty for Collaborative Research, although it isn’t clear if her younger assailant is a scholar at the highschool.
“I believe this can be a little one who herself has been punched within the head many instances. I’ve by no means seen a baby try this,” mentioned Connor.
Connor mentioned she ended up with a big lump on her head however didn’t require any extra medical therapy.
No arrests had been made within the case by late Tuesday.
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