Two young Harlem kids escaped a jail sentence almost as narrowly as the woman they hit with a shopping cart escaped death.
Jeovanni Rosario, 13, and Raymond Hernandez, 12, could have been sentenced to up to 18 months in a juvenile facility after foolishly pushing a shopping cart off an elevated walkway at the East River Plaza Shopping Center on October 30, reports the New York Post.
Philanthropist, real-estate agent and mother Marion Hedges was the woman horrifically struck by the cart that day. She had been at the shopping center with her 13-year-old son to buy Halloween candy for underprivileged kids.
Hedges was technically dead at the scene, but miraculously brought back to life by a doctor that happened to be nearby.
The two children that pleaded guilty to second-degree assault said they thought up the plan together.
Jeovanni's lawyer recommended to Manhattan Family Court Judge Susan Larabee he be placed into a single-parent foster home so he could have access to school and clinical care. He is due back in court on Wednesday, February 1.
As for Raymond, probation officials said he seemed "extremely remorseful," and recommended he be placed on probation. He will go back to court on February 3.
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