*Authorities have filed charges against seven children involved in a November assault on a Chicago mother and her son that gained widespread attention online.
According to NBC Chicago, the group includes three 10-year-old boys, one 10-year-old girl, an 11-year-old girl, a 12-year-old boy, and a 13-year-old girl. Each faces one or more misdemeanor counts of battery causing bodily harm. Officials continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the event. The charges stem from an incident that left the victims hospitalized initially in serious condition.
The attack targeted 33-year-old Corshawnda Hatter and her nine-year-old son as they walked home from Orville Bright Elementary School in the South Deering neighborhood. Video footage captured the group confronting, following, and repeatedly striking the family. Community members gathered outside the school the following day to demand accountability.
Hatter described the confrontation during a public statement. “They were literally waiting (along) the way we walk home, just to jump all of us,” she said. She recounted attempting to cross the street to evade the group, only to be pursued. “So we kept walking. They followed us all the way. … And then they fought my son and hit my son first. … Then they dragged me in the grass and pulled my little baby’s hair out.”
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She linked the violence to the ongoing bullying her child faced at school and vowed to seek a resolution. “I’m trying to get justice for my son,” she said. Hatter later shared the emotional aftermath, stating, “I can’t sleep because I wake up in the middle of the night with that vision in my head of my son calling my name to help him, and I couldn’t do anything for him. That really hurt me the most.”
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson condemned the act in a statement on X. “I was deeply disturbed to see the video of young people attacking a mother and her child … That type of behavior is unacceptable in our city and we must not normalize that type of senseless violence.,” he said.
Johnson emphasized the need for more mental health support in schools and teaching non-violent conflict resolution.
The young suspects received referrals for counseling before being released from custody.
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