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  • Victim in videotaped transit-tunnel beating found guilty in Edmonds robbery (Seattle bus tunnel)

    08/11/2010 10:36:40 AM PDT · by Stoat · 19 replies
    The Seattle Times ^ | August 10, 2010 | Christine Clarridge
     It took a Snohomish County Juvenile Court judge about 35 seconds Tuesday to decide he didn't believe Aiesha Steward-Baker's story. After about two hours of testimony, Judge George N. Bowden convicted the 16-year-old of second-degree robbery, saying her testimony lacked credibility, and that she had lied either to police or to the court. Either way, he said, he wasn't inclined to take her word over that of the victim, whose testimony he found "exceptionally credible." Steward-Baker, whose videotaped beating in Seattle's downtown transit tunnel made headlines earlier this year, had been accused of attacking and robbing a 50-year-old Shoreline...
  • Investigators: Guards stand by during brutal attack (Video; Seattle bus tunnel attack )

    02/09/2010 11:21:54 PM PST · by Stoat · 45 replies · 1,495+ views
    KING TV ^ | February 9, 2010 | SUSANNAH FRAME
    SEATTLE - The KING 5 Investigators have uncovered a disturbing video-tape captured on five different security cameras underneath downtown Seattle.  It shows the graphic beating of a teenage girl in Seattle's Metro bus tunnel, while uniformed security guards simply look on. (edit) The video shows the two girls hitting each other for a few seconds. Then, the scene gets vicious. The young attacker punches the victim in the head and face 10 times. "It looks like a very egregious assault, which in fact it was," said Sgt. John Urquhart of the King County Sheriff’s Office, which is investigating the...