Masked teens mugging moms, nannies in crime-ridden San Francisco: reports
By Allie Griffin
July 4, 2023 8:53pm
San Francisco mothers, including a pregnant woman, and nannies are being targeted in violent, broad-daylight robberies at the hands of masked minors in the crime-ridden city.
Police have connected a group of teenagers to at least 11 such attacks last week in Noe Valley and nearby areas, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
The young suspects, wearing ski masks, allegedly pushed, and punched the female victims in order to steal their smartphones before escaping in a stolen runaway car, cops said.
One juvenile male suspect has since been arrested in connection to the string of robberies and police are searching for his alleged co-conspirators, the local paper reported.
The brazen crime in the affluent sections of the city has left residents on high alert.
The teens appeared to spare no mercy in the attacks, having victimized a pregnant woman and a person with a stroller in two cases, Noe Valley Supervisor Rafael Mandelman told the Chronicle.
One mother who asked to be identified by her initials CW for fear of retaliation, told the newspaper she was on her way to pick up her daughter from daycare last Monday when she was attacked.
She said she was pushing an empty stroller when a person in a gray ski mask hopped out of a car and knocked her to the sidewalk as he snatched her phone.
“I was shoved to the ground aggressively,” she said, adding that San Francisco police seemed reluctant to offer help.
A daycare worker who only provided her first name Laura told the publication that she too was violently robbed of her phone the same day while waiting for the train.
Her attacker punched her in the back and head, grabbed her phone and fled in a waiting getaway car, she said.
“The first thing I thought was that they didn’t have to hit me, they didn’t have to be so aggressive,” Laura said. “Then the anguish of knowing that they had taken my unlocked cell phone and that I had all my credit cards tied to my Apple Pay.”
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