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Assault and battery with a dangerous pear: Two teens charged with attacking woman at Red Line stop with her own groceries

A high-school student from Jamaica Plain was confined to his home - except to be allowed out to attend school - for his alleged role in a grocery attack on a woman at the Broadway Red Line station on Thursday, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Saul Diaz, 18, was charged with unarmed robbery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

A 16-year-old was charged with the juvenile equivalent of the same crimes, but is too young to have her name released.

According to the DSA's office, police responded to the station around 3:35 p.m. to find a woman, 21, sitting on a bench on the Red Line platform, crying:

The victim told police she had been on an outbound Red Line train and saw a group of teenagers arguing with someone. One of the juveniles, a female, turned to the victim and said “What the (expletive) are you looking at?”

As the female juvenile disembarked from the train at Broadway station, she and a second member of the group, later identified as Diaz, pulled a bag of groceries from the victim and dumped its items on the platform. They then picked up items and threw them at the victim. The victim told police she was hit in the nose with a pear. Police noted that the victim’s nose was swollen and bleeding. The victim was transported to Tufts Medical Center for treatment.

Diaz and the younger teen were arrested Friday, based on descriptions by the victim and video from station surveillance cameras, the DA's office reports.

Police said at the time that a total of five teens were involved in the attack.

Innocent, etc.

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Random subway assault. So funny, isn't it?

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Never forget.

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I don't generally agree with John, but you're being a real asshat about this.

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Because his peers deserve to be around a violent sociopath when trying to learn.

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You know this kid? You have professionally examined them and yet you divulge your results in public?

Hmmm. Who is the sociopath?

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They get hyper-confrontational with a complete stranger just for looking at them, then follow them, then assault them with their groceries?

Just curious, where do we draw the "shouldn't be out in general public" line, hmm? Because randomly attacking strangers for looking at you seems pretty high on the list.

You know how that 18 year old got where they are today? And endless line of people like you making excuses for them. A tough home, economically disadvantaged, daddy was mean to them, wrong side of the tracks, etc.

You know what? Lots of people grew up with all of those things and didn't assault someone with their own groceries for looking at them....while, I might add, they're instigating a fight.

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Oh,come on. We'll just call the kid an ahole then. But calling someone a sociopath, especially when they exhibit antisocial behavior, does not make a person a sociopath.
Jeez.

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My point.

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These teens have been terrorizing passengers for several months. They have been treated with kid gloves in previous vicious incidents and let go with a stern warning.

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Please share the source of this information.

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Clearly, they’re doing a shit job of raising their kid(s) so far. Maybe they need some skin in the game to actually start parenting.

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Clearly, they’re doing a shit job of raising their kid(s) so far.

One of the two is 18. How do you propose to compel them to do anything?

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That’s better than the 0% right now

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Yes, parents could probably do better.

Except we don't know what is going on with the lack of supervision. Could be lazy parenting, or it could be that having to have three shitty jobs to pay the rent and buy the food gets in the way of spending quality time with the young ones, and putting the older ones in charge isn't working.

Should they get a visit from CPS? Definitely. But don't be so quick to assume that people's circumstances are conducive to being able to do much about kids too old for supervised programs.

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Just because the parents might be working three jobs doesn’t give their kids a free pass to be menaces to the general public, or for the parents to get a free pass at basic parenting.

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