Mother of homicidal shopping cart hurler thinks her son, “a good kid,” should go free

Last Sunday Marion Hedges of Manhattan was walking with one of her two children in an East Harlem shopping mall carrying Halloween candy she had just purchased for underprivileged children, when a shopping cart that had been thrown from a fourth story walkway by two 12 year old boys hurtled down through space and struck her in the head, gravely injuring her. The perpetrators’ names, Jeovanni Rosario and Raymond Hernandez, were Spanish, and it was unclear whether they were black Hispanics or just Hispanics. So I titled the entry “Another white victim of minority mayhem.” However, commenter Jim C. said that Jeovanni is a black name.

The front page of today’s New York Daily News has a story about a hearing in the case in which Jeovanni’s mother Rosemary Rosario pled for her son’s release—release for her feral spawn who poses a mortal threat to society. There is a big photo of her and she has plenty of sub Saharan ancestry.

Outside the courtroom, Jeovanni’s mom wailed in despair.

“He’s only 12 years old,” Rosemary Rosario cried. “He’s a good kid. I just need help. I am a single mom.”

The photo of Rosemary Rosario is not in the online version of the article. There is however a photo of the mall and multistory walkway where the homicidal act—called a “tragedy” by Jeovanni’s attorney and by the Daily News reporters—was committed:

The fourth story walkway from which the subhumans threw the shopping cart must be
40 feet above the main level of the mall where Marion Hedges was walking with her child.

As for the “good kid” Jeovanni, the story tells us:

Jeovanni has been “verbally disrespectful” and “completely rude” to his teachers, the [probation] officer said.

Here is the article:

Mom, lawyers plead for the release of two 12-year-old boys in near-fatal cart-toss in East Harlem Target; but judge denies release

“He’s sorry, he’s sorry,” said the mother of one accused boy
By Melissa Grace And Corky Siemaszko

Saturday, November 5 2011, 1:35 AM

In tiny voices, the 12-year-olds accused of critically injuring a Manhattan mom by tossing a shopping cart from a walkway stated their names and ages Friday before a Family Court judge.

Looking very small in a room full of adults, the boys sat slumped in their chairs as their lawyers pleaded with a judge to spring them from custody and let them go home with their moms, who cried quietly in the courtroom.

“This is a tragedy,” said attorney Shahabuddeen Ally, who represents pint-sized Jeovanni R. “This act may have been sophomoric, but it was not intentional.”

Judge Susan Larabee was unmoved.

“Nothing has changed since I remanded them the first time,” she said. “I’m continuing the remand.”

While Jeovanni appeared lost in his own thoughts when Larabee made her ruling, his alleged accomplice, Raymond H., glanced over at his mother, who burst into tears.

Outside the courtroom, Jeovanni’s mom wailed in despair.

“He’s only 12 years old,” Rosemary Rosario cried. “He’s a good kid. I just need help. I am a single mom.”

Tears pouring down her face, Rosario said her heart goes out to the victim, Marion Salmon Hedges, and her family.

“He’s sorry, he’s sorry,” she said. “I hope she recuperates.”

There were no members of the Hedges family in the courtroom to take in the latest sad chapter in this New York tragedy.

They were at Harlem Hospital with the 47-year-old philanthropist, who was walking out of an East Harlem mall with Halloween candy for underprivileged kids Sunday when she fell victim to a sick stunt.

The Daily News reported Friday that the pedestrian walkway was privately owned, meaning the railing only had to be 42 inches high. City-owned walkways must have 8-foot fences over the walls. That would have made the near-deadly stunt almost impossible.

Jeovanni and Raymond, who were placed in the custody of the Administration for Children’s Services on Monday after they were each charged with assault in the first degree, were given a Nov. 18 trial date.

After five nights away from home, both boys looked nervous and apprehensive when they arrived in court Friday.

Raymond, dressed mostly in black, immediately locked eyes with his parents. Jeovanni, dressed mostly in blue and wearing droopy jeans, did not look at his mom.

“He wants to go home,” said Ally before the court proceeding. “That is our goal.”

Ally said his underage client, who neighbors in the Washington Houses described as the “baddest boy in the building,” had not been arrested before.

During the half-hour proceeding, Jeovanni nervously jiggled his right leg. Raymond put his head in his hands at one point. Their faces were blank slates.

“We have at least 10 witnesses,” Assistant Corporation Counsel Leah Schmelzer told the court, after asking that the boys remain in ACS custody.

Raymond’s lawyer, Sandeep Kandhari, asked the judge to “parole our client to his parents.”

Raymond has an almost perfect school attendance record, maintains a 96 average, and “has no history of running away,” the lawyer said.

“This is Raymond’s first arrest,” Kandhari said. “He understands that this is a very serious matter.”

Also, the lawyer added, Raymond lives in the Clinton Houses with both parents and one aunt is a retired NYPD officer.

Ally told the court Jeovanni wants to be a cop when he grows up. “We are asking the court to give Jeovanni a chance,” he said.

Then came a probation officer, who told the court Raymond had been suspended for rough-housing at school. He said Jeovanni also has a “history of suspensions” and that last year alone he has been absent 19 times and late 51 times.

Jeovanni has been “verbally disrespectful” and “completely rude” to his teachers, the officer said.

- end of initial entry -

Forta Leza writes:

Probably the mall operators were negligent in having such low railings. If you look at highway overpasses near black areas, they are always built with very high fence-like enclosures that curve backwards to discourage this sort of behavior. For example the bridge to the sewage treatment plant on the West Side of Manhattan.

Every few years there is an incident where unsupervised black children kill or injure somebody because they think it is entertaining to drop a heavy object on someone below.

LA replies:

The Daily News suggests but doesn’t state definitely that the railings were within legal limits for a privately owned property: “The Daily News reported Friday that the pedestrian walkway was privately owned, meaning the railing only had to be 42 inches high. City-owned walkways must have 8-foot fences over the walls. That would have made the near-deadly stunt almost impossible.”

If elevated walkways in malls must have eight-foot high fence-like enclosures that curve backwards, it would make shopping malls like prisons. But, as Murray and Herrnstein suggested in The Bell Curve, if society fails to restore some modicum of familial and social order to the low-IQ minority populations, there will be no alternative but to place them under a permanent custodial regime. Eight-foot high curved-back enclosures on all elevated walking areas would be a part of that.

November 6

Todd A. writes:

Here in Oklahoma this name Jeovanni is common among non black Hispanics. To my knowledge, they are mostly, if not entirely, of Mexican descent.

Jeanette V. writes:

Typical Eloi speak from the husband of Marion Salmon Hedges: “We would like these young boys to receive the counseling and care which will help them become responsible members of their communities.”

As a retired psychiatric nurse who worked with the criminally insane, the one thing a person needs to “get better” and become “responsible members of their communities” is the ability to be introspective. An act of that kind of violence at such an early age pretty means it is too late for any rehabilitation.

How much do we want to bet that their “parents” grew up without fathers.

Charles P. writes:

From the Daily News article:

“This is a tragedy,” said attorney Shahabuddeen Ally, who represents pint-sized Jeovanni R. “This act may have been sophomoric, but it was not intentional.”

Anyone named Shahabuddeen ain’t my ally.

Charles P. continues:

When a Shahabuddeen allies himself with the white victim of non-white on white crime, we can talk about allies. Not before.

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