Gang of Children Accused in Pennsylvania Home Invasion

The Nando Times ^ | March 17, 2002 | The Associated Press

[Artie_Kay]

BALDWIN, Pa. (March 17, 2002 12:36 p.m. EST) - Police said they will file charges against at least seven children, ages 8 to 12, for allegedly invading the apartment of two young women, groping them and stealing their food.

Paperwork will be filed Monday to schedule juvenile court hearings on charges including robbery, indecent assault, trespassing and conspiracy, said officials in the suburb of Pittsburgh.

"I've never seen anything in 20 years where you have a group of kids this young who would act up in this fashion to go into a house or an apartment and remove food and sexually assault the people living there," police Sgt. Dan Turner said.

Police were still investigating Sunday and said it was possible more children could be charged.

The children remain in their parents' custody.

The women, ages 18 and 21, said they opened their door Wednesday evening after hearing pebbles being thrown against their windows and a knock on the door.

Five boys surrounded the women, overpowering them and groping them, while two girls helped themselves to food in the refrigerator, police said. The women yelled for help and their boyfriends chased the children away.

The women were not seriously hurt, Police Chief Christopher Kelly said.

Kelly said that in addition to filing charges, police will seek to have the children's families evicted from the Green Meadows housing complex where the incident occurred.

Reports of drug abuse, vandalism, child neglect and unsupervised children are rampant at the 1,071-unit complex, police said.

"There's a lot of young kids around here, and when it's dark they think they can do whatever they want," said Nick Staab, 16, who has lived in the complex for four years. "The other night I was walking my dog and a group of little kids picked up chunks of brick and tried to beat me."

Borough officials said they've complained to the owner, Home Properties of Rochester, N.Y.

Nobody answered calls seeking comment at the company's headquarters on Sunday

[veronica]

Lord of the flies.

[thinktwice]

Borough officials said they've complained to the owner,

Those with the police power to protect life and property, are calling the property owner? That's insanity!!!

[Ken522]

"But Judge, they're only children</>!"

[mountaineer]

Reports of drug abuse, vandalism, child neglect and unsupervised children are rampant at the 1,071-unit complex, police said.

I used to live near this huge complex. Its owners change the name of the place every couple of years because its reputation is so bad. I guess they figure everyone will think it's not the same crime-ridden, welfare-recipient-inhabited place it was under another name. On one of the Pittsburgh news programs the other night, a Baldwin police officer was asked whether the department would be increasing patrols as a result of this incident. He hesitated and said they're already stretched thin enough and couldn't patrol more than they do - just what the little juvenile delinquents were hoping to hear, I'm sure.

[ambrose]

Where's Jesse and Al?

[b4its2late]

Police said they will file charges against at least seven children, ages 8 to 12, for allegedly invading the apartment of two young women, groping them and stealing their food.

Why should they be charged? It's only about sex in their personal lives? /sarcasm

Wonder where they learned about groping?

[elwoodp]

Does this place have a lot of subsidized housing? If so, I would suggest they move out those tenants still paying their own way, fence in the entire complex, and let the welfare miscreants feast on each others' carcuses.

[raybbr]

Surely this is the fault of their teachers. I'm sure throwing more money at the school systmem will help these vagabond children "learn" to be better kids.

[crazykatz]

They are not chilrdren...they are "little sweethearts" called junior gangsta club members. Not to be confused with the Boy Scouts which the American lame-stream media has dubbed enemy #1.

[Pern]

(Sarcasm on) They're just misunderstood. (Sarcasm off)

[mountaineer]

According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the local authorities and the owner of the complex are launching a new crime-fighting program. The article indicates that some 300 units are subsidized. Go here for the article. Pretty interesting how local residents complain about the "ghetto mentality" of the miscreants.

[FITZ]

We certainly aren't getting much by having all these welfare stay-at-home mothers. The projects here are filled with criminal kids whose mothers lay around all day, they aren't required to work because they're single parents but they still won't watch their brats. We should shut down the entire welfare program, food stamps, WIC, TANF and let local charities take over.

[FITZ]

Wonder where they learned about groping?

They're children of democrats and Clinton was their hero. They also see their mothers with lines of boyfriends passing through their homes.

[Inkie]

It takes a village to raise a pack of feral, predatory juveniles.

[joesnuffy]

These digs ought to get real interesting when these kids are about 5 yrs older...
A little bigger and stronger learn just how much they can get away with
..At least their parents aren't sending them out to play dressed in exlplosives ....YET

[Tacis]

I believe we are talking about little chillens, here, who have still not been able to overcome the terrible effects of slavery and are destined to live out lives of crime and unemployment unless they receive the reparations that is their entitlement. Surely, Jesse can find a way to make a buck out of this and help these sweet young ones. In fact, if he just sold their $150 sneakers, he could make some big money.

[Balding_Eagle]

Those with the police power to protect life and property, are calling the property owner? That's insanity!!!

NO IT'S NOT!

It's the perfectly logical first step in the seizer process conducted by law enforcement.

Within a couple of years, provided law enforcement is able to NOT enforce the laws at this location, this complex will belong to the State.

[NittanyLion]

Perhaps residents should begin answering their doors with a shotgun in hand.