Police say a Staten Island woman is accused of carrying out a string of hate crime attacks in Bay Ridge, including the assault of a 12-year-old girl.<\/p>\n
Megan Horne, 34, allegedly made anti-Muslim remarks while assaulting the girl and two women in three separate incidents on Jan. 30.<\/p>\n
Authorities say the first victim, a 33-year-old, was pushed and kicked in front of 8902 5th Ave. just before 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Less than 10 minutes later and just over a block away, a 39-year-old was pushed from behind while boarding a B53 bus near 530 92nd St.<\/p>\n
Just three minutes later and steps away, at Fort Hamilton Parkway and 92nd Street, the 12-year-old girl was struck in the face, according to police.<\/p>\n
The victims denied medical attention at the scene.<\/p>\n
Police arrested Horne Wednesday. She is charged with hate crime assault, hate crime aggravated harassment, acting in a manner injurious to a child and assault.<\/p>\n
Councilmember Kayla Santosuosso posted a statement about the attacks on X:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a Staten Island woman is accused of carrying out a string of hate crime attacks in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[7727,53851,15582,5864,9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-123224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-bay-ridge","tag-child-assaulted","tag-hate-crime","tag-muslim","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}