NYPD: Woman Attacks 12-Year-Old Boy With His Own Hockey Stick In Staten Island Park
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Police on Tuesday were looking for a woman who they said snatched a hockey stick from a 12-year-old boy and hit him with it on Staten Island earlier this month.
The NYPD said the incident happened around 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 13 as Anthony Pasqualone and his friends were playing street hockey in a playground on Crispi Lane in Great Kills, Staten Island.
Anthony talked with CBS2's Hazel Sanchez about the moment when he said the woman attacked him.
"She just like told us to, like, that her baby was sleeping. She didn't want us, like, playing and making too much noise," he said.
Liam Grapes, 14, was with Anthony at the park at the time. He said the woman was carrying a baby in a stroller and left the child unattended to confront them.
"She came over, she took the sticks, and she went over to the drop over there. She went to go throw them over, but I got one of the sticks back," Liam said. "And she went to go swing at me and she missed, and she got Anthony right in the leg."
Anthony suffered swelling and bruising but did not require hospitalization, police said.
"It hurt very bad," Anthony said.
His mother was absolutely furious.
"When you have somebody coming and telling kids not to play in a playground, that's a problem," said Gladys Martinez.
Martinez quickly heard about the attack and rushed to the park to question the unidentified woman.
"I said: 'Well, but I just want to know why you would hit my kid. And you know, if the baby's sleeping, why wouldn't you just walk away?' And she just kept like ignoring me," she said. "And then eventually I told her, 'Well, I'm calling the cops.'"
The woman left the park before police arrived.
The boys said they had seen the woman pushing a baby carriage in the neighborhood before the day she allegedly attacked them. But that was nearly two weeks ago, and she hasn't been seen since.
Martinez believes the mystery attacker is a nanny for an infant in her neighborhood.
"What happens when the baby doesn't do something she doesn't like, you know? Then what?" Martinez said. "Is she going to hurt the baby?"
Martinez hoped police would catch the woman before she gets the chance to hurt anyone else.
Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS, visit the Crime Stoppers website, or text tips to 274637 (CRIMES) and enter TIP577.
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