Posted on 04/26/2005 8:06:25 AM PDT by Jimmyclyde
Mom: Girls pounded on me at Chuck E.’s By Jennifer Rosinski Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - Updated: 10:22 AM EST
A band of female hooligans roughed up and cursed out a Clinton mother at the Leominster Chuck E. Cheese after she asked to take one picture with her family in the photo booth they had hogged for almost an hour.
``It was like a brawl you'd see at an English soccer game the way they kept hitting her,'' said a disgusted Nelson Lee, the Leominster father of two boys who broke up the assault. ``She was down in the fetal position trying to protect herself and they didn't let up.''
Eduarda Silveira, 27, and Alexandre Flor, 30, were at the packed kids' playland in the Whitney Field Mall with their 11-month-old daughter, Ana Paula Flor, for the first time when violence erupted about 7 p.m. Sunday.
``We were just really afraid,'' said Flor, a Marlboro Realtor.
Flor said Silveira asked the girls if she could cut in and take one picture with her family when it became clear the group of at least five wasn't leaving anytime soon. The girls cursed in response, but got out of the couple's way.
``(Eduarda) was standing behind the machine waiting for the picture when the other girl started to say stupid things,'' said Flor, who recounted the girl's obscenity-laden insults and his pleas for them to stop. ``She jumped up and grabbed (Eduarda's) hair. I was trying to defend her. I had my daughter in my arms.''
Silveira fell to the ground and the girls continued to kick her in the back, head and arms as Lee tried to pull each girl off.
``At one point I had to basically tackle one of the girls and say, `Listen, you need to knock it off,' '' said Lee, who stands 5-foot-10 and weighs more than 230 pounds.
Silveira went to Clinton Hospital after the attack and yesterday showed several bruises, including one on her right arm that runs from shoulder to elbow.
About a dozen state and local police from two towns descended upon the children's haven that opened in January and arrested three females Lee described as ``the most aggressive'' on assault charges. They are Claritza Castillo, 18, and Jennifer Peralta, 21, both of Fitchburg, and a 14-year-old girl from The Bronx, N.Y.
Jon Rice, Chuck E. Cheese's marketing vice president, called the fight an ``unfortunate event.'' He applauded the manager for dialing 911 and deciding to shut the doors at 8 p.m., two hours earlier than scheduled.
``I threw out the picture from the machine,'' said Flor. ``I don't want any bad reminders of that day and that picture was pivotal.''
Not only that, but the kids spend $20.00 or more to get strings of tokens which can be traded in for some cheap plastic toy worth ten cents (if that much). Once my mother pointed out to my niece and nephew that their $20.00 would go much further in the toy department of any store, Chuck E. Cheese lost all appeal for them. Thank goodness, because all the adults in my family hate that place.
The playas can have it.
I would love to know what they were saying before they started the "reality session"
don't be hatin
Its a great place to meet ladies.
Those weren't girls; they were female thugs.
Whoever said that, were idiots living in blissninnyland.
bttt
Wanna bet that none of these young ladies' kids have fathers?
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"Das Juden"?
b00gie down Brooooooooonx!
A little to knowledgeable for my own good...
word...
As a husband and a father, if someone attacks any member of my family, I have the right and the duty to destroy them in self defense.
"Wanna bet that none of these young ladies' kids have fathers?"
For obvious reasons I will not take your bet.
They all have fathers, it's just that none of them have dads.
Leominster is quite a few miles from Boston. That entire area is not so well off to say the least. Some the neighborhoods in that part of Massachusetts are pretty rough.
Surprised Lee wasn't arrested for assaulting a "minor".
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