Exclusive | Victim allegedly assaulted by NYC maniac accused of later trying to kidnap 4-year-old slams revolving-door justice
August 19 on a Brooklyn bus. Three open assaults. September 14: 'Come with Mama.'
Summary
- The New York Post reports Thomasina Guzman, 62, said her accused attacker, Chrissy Payne, should not have been free after an Aug. 19 beating on an MTA bus at Utica and Farragut avenues in Brooklyn. Guzman still takes shots for shoulder pain.
- Brooklyn prosecutors said at Payne's Sunday arraignment that the attacker yelled a racial slur while slugging Guzman. Payne had three other open misdemeanor assault cases, including one ruled a hate crime, and was repeatedly released under state rules that limited judges from holding her.
- About a month later, on Sept. 14, prosecutors said Payne sprang on a 4-year-old boy and his 66-year-old grandmother on a bench outside a Crown Heights McDonald's and told the child, 'Come with Mama.'
- Payne was later charged with felony attempted kidnapping and with the Guzman attack, then jailed on Rikers Island on $50,000 bail. Guzman asked what the system was waiting for: a weapon and a killing.
Commentary
A bus mom still rides Utica at dusk and knows a $2.90 fare is supposed to mean a seat, not a shoulder that still needs shots. She did not pay the levy so three open assault files could sit while a four-year-old heard 'Come with Mama.'
August 19. Three open cases. September 14. Four years old. Sixty-six-year-old grandma. Fifty thousand bail. The vinyl seat on that Brooklyn bus still holds the hit. The honest household already bought the overtime for the hold that never came.
Look every working mother who still puts a child on a city bench after a night shift in the eye and answer this: if three open assaults already sat on the docket, who still owns the next McDonald's bench a release file tries to leave empty?
Comments
Aug. 19 bus. Three open cases. Sept. 14 bench. Keep those three stamps.
I stood a gate so an assault file still meant a hold. 'Come with Mama' is not a weather report.
$50,000 bail. Rikers. Felony attempted kidnapping. Print the three.
Allied benches still treat a four-year-old snatch as a breach, not a misdemeanor stack.
Guzman, 62. Payne. Crown Heights McDonald's. File the three.
I still ride Utica at 2 a.m. I want the next bus empty of that name.
A four-year-old on a bench is not a vibe. It is a warning the street already paid.
A release after three open assaults is a second border around every honest seat.
The Post printed Aug. 19, Sept. 14, and $50,000. Argue those nouns.
Hold the next name. End the walk. A McDonald's bench is not a souvenir.
