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  • Woman nearly killed by shopping cart awarded $45.2M

    10/01/2018 10:48:45 PM PDT · by Zhang Fei · 90 replies
    New York Post ^ | June 15, 2018 | 3:08pm | Julia Marsh and Kalah Siegel
    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...
  • Shopping cart victim says she wishes boys who injured her 'well'

    03/19/2012 7:11:29 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 25 replies
    nypost.com ^ | March 19, 2012 | FRANS KOSTER
    A Manhattan charity worker who was nearly killed by a shopping cart pushed over a garage railing by teenage punks in October spoke publicly for the first time today -- expressing compassion for the pranksters who dropped the cart on her head. Marion Hedges, during a walk outside her Upper East Side apartment, said she hasn’t received an apology from the evil-doers. “I haven’t heard from them, but I wish them well,” Hedges said. “I do, because I feel very sorry for them.” “I don’t know that my son would do something like that or that his friends would do...
  • Boy, 12, sentenced in NYC shopping-cart shove

    03/08/2012 9:24:24 AM PST · by Free ThinkerNY · 26 replies
    Associated Press ^ | March 8, 2012
    NEW YORK (AP) -- A 12-year-old who sent a shopping cart hurtling onto a woman from a fourth-floor New York City mall walkway is being sent to a therapeutic foster home. A Manhattan Family Court judge sentenced the boy Thursday to at least six and up to 16 months in the residential program.