{"id":124698,"date":"2026-02-06T02:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124698\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T02:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:40:28","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-woman-accused-of-carrying-out-string-of-hate-crime-attacks-in-bay-ridge-granted-supervised-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124698\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Woman accused of carrying out string of hate crime attacks in Bay Ridge granted supervised release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brooklyn District Attorney\u2019s Office says the woman accused of carrying out a <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/staten-island-woman-arrested-for-string-of-hate-crime-attacks-in-bay-ridge-including-assault-of-12-year-old-girl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">string of hate crime attacks<\/a> in Bay Ridge was granted supervised release.<\/p>\n<p>Megan Horne, 34, of Staten Island, faces multiple hate crime charges for allegedly making anti-Muslim remarks during the attacks, telling one victim to \u201cget out of this country.\u201d All three victims wore hijabs, the youngest, a 12-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say the Jan. 30 attacks happened within blocks of each other, occurring within a 16-minute span.<\/p>\n<p>Horne faced a judge for the first time late Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, Horne is accused of uttering the remark during the first attack, where a 33-year-old woman was kicked all over her body and punched in the face. It happened at 8902 5th Ave. around 2:20 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Five minutes later, just over a block away at Gleston Avenue and 92nd Street, Horne allegedly punched the 12-year-old in the face, prosecutors say.<\/p>\n<p>Then, around 2:36 p.m. at 92nd Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway, a 39-year-old woman was pushed from behind while boarding a B53 bus. According to court documents, Horne is accused of telling her, \u201cI go first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Horne faces a total of 21 charges, including assault, menacing, aggravated harassment and endangering the welfare of a child. She is due back in court April 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn District Attorney\u2019s Office says the woman accused of carrying out a string of hate crime attacks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[10859,357,7727,98,100,99,53851,10685,13029,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-124698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-arraignment","tag-assaults","tag-bay-ridge","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-child-assaulted","tag-hate-crimes","tag-hijab","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124698","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=124698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}