Posted on 10/01/2018 10:48:45 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
An Upper West Side philanthropist who was nearly killed by a shopping cart that was tossed by teens from an overpass won a $45.2 million jury award Friday — and said she plans to donate a portion of the money to a local youth center.
Victim Marion Hedges, 53, shook with emotion when the verdict was announced — but she didn’t shed a tear because a side effect of her brain damage is the inability to cry.
She then stood and applauded the jurors before they left Manhattan Supreme Court.
“It’s been a long, long road,” Hedges said.
Hedges and her son were buying Halloween candy for poor kids on Oct. 30, 2011, at the East River Plaza mall in East Harlem when the teens tossed the cart from a 79-foot-high landing outside a Target store.
Hedges suffered severe brain injuries when the cart knocked her to the ground. But she never blamed Jeovanni Rosario, 13, and Raymond Hernandez, 12, who were behind the incident. Both teens were sentenced to time in juvenile facilities.
“I just want to be able to do something with the money that helps kids in Harlem, I really do,” Hedges said after the verdict, specifying that she’d like to support the Johnson Community Center on East 113th Street.
“We want to help Harlem kids have a chance to do something besides throw a shopping cart on a boring Sunday afternoon,” she said.
The judge was wowed by the Manhattan mom’s attitude throughout the case.
“I think you have shown us all how to live in the face of adversity,” Justice Carmen St. George had said at the end of the trial.
Hedges, her son, Dayton, and her husband, Michael, sued Target, the mall and its security company for negligence in 2011, saying the businesses ignored
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Ban all Assault Shopping Carts now!
They knew full well when they built it, that it was a dangerous bumpstock shopping cart!
Gee, I guess I’m different. I’d like to see them behind bars for 20 years at least so they don’t endanger someone else.
I call it attempted murder and I don’t care what age they are. Sounds like this woman and her son didn’t do anything to them and they decided to try and take her and maybe her son out at the same time.
Ridiculous.
She never blamed the kids.
That’s because she’s an a@@hole.
And that’s why the cycle never changes among certain groups.
NO BLAME is the name of the game.
Hedges and her son were buying Halloween candy for poor kids on Oct. 30, 2011, at the East River Plaza mall in East Harlem when the teens tossed the cart from a 79-foot-high landing outside a Target store. Hedges suffered severe brain injuries when the cart knocked her to the ground. But she never blamed Jeovanni Rosario, 13, and Raymond Hernandez, 12, who were behind the incident. Both teens were sentenced to time in juvenile facilities.
How's that pro-pedophile bathroom policy lookin' now, eh, Target?
Anybody here remember Benson and Hedges cigarettes?
You've got your own cigarette, now, baby, you've come a long, long way.
“But she never blamed Jeovanni Rosario, 13, and Raymond Hernandez, 12, who were behind the incident”
No, of course not. Who would actually blame the kids who literally threw the shopping cart on top of them. The cart should have stood its ground and resisted. Erm. I do believe they deserved more than to just spend a little time in “juvie.”
I feel sorry for this woman. She’s seems like a good person.
I agree and those kids will do something bad again.
Hard to believe anybody could be THIS stupid:
“Mrs Hedges said she felt sorry for the teens....‘Those poor children who threw the cart were at a shopping mall because they had no place to go,’”
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We do not know how to reason anymore. It will be our downfall.
Close the Harlem store.
A bit of karma on the store with sex neutral dressing rooms.
At least the percentages add up to 100.
That was never the BENSON & HEDGES slogan; it was VIRGINIA SLIMS!
It is truly a foreign nation and incompatible with the rest of us.
She’s seems like a good person.
I agree with your comments.
I also think she's an idiot. A lot of "good people" are ruining this country. And a lot of them are of my sex, unfortunately.
And I also don't agree with the lawsuit at all. The people that actually do these things are very often not made to suffer enough with loss of freedom nor financial suffering. I know they were kids so they don't have deep pockets, but what they did is no one's fault other than theirs.
I'm glad they are appealing and she can stuff "her" charity. It's charity with someone else's money...just like the left always does. Easy to have a bleeding heart when someone else is footing the bill.
Sure, blame the store and security, I’m surprised that Isaac Newton wasn’t partly to blame, he discovered gravity.
Kids who murder or attempt murder should not get more lenient treatment. Murder is murder and theres no distinction about different punishments by age with respect to murder.
It means no real justice for the other people, usually adults. They rob a family of a parent, the rob other kids from their parents. The adults life is less if they dont get the proper sentence for murder.
This is why gangs have had minors do murders. This is why some kids decide to murder someone, they know they get just a few years in juvenile and have their records sealed.
It demeans the victims. the victims aren’t worth as much and dont get justice. they are gone forever because of the age of the murderer. not right. never has been.
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