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Subscribe to RSSA 17-year-old boy has been arrested after police say he admitted to throwing a 9-year-old boy off the roof of a Bronx apartment building Friday night, critically injuring him.
The 9-year-old boy was found on the pavement unconscious with severe body trauma in front of the five-story building on Nelson Avenue in Morris Heights at around 8:30 p.m., authorities said. He was taken to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital where he is listed in critical condition.
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On Saturday, police charged 17-year-old Casmine Aska with attempted murder.
According to a police source, Aska told investigators that he threw the 9-year-old boy off the roof after they got into a fight. The boys are not related, but live in same the building.
It was unclear what started the fight or how the two ended up on the roof.
Aska's family did not respond when a reporter knocked on the door to their apartment.
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What?! This can't be a REAL news story... there was no gun involved... *sarcasm*
May the Lord God have MERCY on all the people involved in this atrocity. Violence and destruction, regardless of how they are committed, have the same horrific result. We focus so much on the "tools" of destruction, that we lose complete sight of the damage itself... There are some VERY sick individuals amongst us... I am sorry, but this is just too terrible. I am heartsick... again.
Immorality on the part of so-called adults creates this engine of violence and evil !!!
I agree. And it's sad that this was preventable, it could have been stopped, if only adults would stop turning a blind eye and a deaf ear.
We, as human beings, need to stop turning a blind eye and ramming our heads into the sand. If you actually read a "full" article on the story, more than 1 neighbor actually stuck their heads out their doors... saw the child being dragged, kicking and screaming. Even if you "thought" they were only playing... at least make sure. I know the way I was raised and hopefully raised my own, if I had heard someone screaming, and even if I thought they were just playing, I would, and have, checked it out. In this case, someone even saw the child being dragged up a stairway. Did they think that was fun for the child? I at least would have tried to stop the dragging. Dragging IS NOT FUN. I would have at least said something, like "stop that, you're gonna hurt him doing that". Perhaps if anyone had stopped turning a blind eye and at least done that, this crime would have stopped.
But hey, guess no one feels like standing up for a child being abused, dragged, and even thrown off a roof by someone much more older and bigger and stronger.... until it's their own.
How sad we as citizens are for continually turning a blind eye to all that we see, everyday. We're becoming a nation of cowards and the violence grows.
Death penalty, he'll never be any good.
First let me say that I hope that the 9 yera-old recovers fully.
Now as to the 17 year-old. He will probably have the opportunity to do this again as you are already making excuses for his behavior in your posts. the court system will look at him and take into account all of the lousy excuses that you have laid out, maybe incarcerate him for a short length of time in a mental unit where they will say that he was abused and didn't know what he was doing as a result and let him go.
I worked in the prison system for 22 years and have seen it over and over again. Revolving door justice is what we have in this country so its no wonder that there is no real fear of concequences for ones actions. They should lock his ass up for at least 25 years before he is even concidered for parole.but that won't happen.
I guess this kid couldn't get a gun because his back ground check failed???
Execution should rehab him, hope the boys relatives take care of it !
9 year old will grow up to be bouncer.
LMAO!
HAHAHA bouncer. thats funny.
Obama wants to have a son just like this 17 year old
John Haddock is nothing more than a stupid man with a little cock!
Cowboy steve,did your horse tell you this or is this something you and your pardners discussed around an open fire last night?? Dude ,you have a keen sense for the obvious.
Despicable crime....and it deserves appriate punishment. Read the NY daily Times report of the story and the poor 9 yr old was dragged from his apt up to the roof and thrown off while begging for his life. Poor kid was conscious after he fell crying for his mother. Rescue crews thought he fell off the fire escape until he told cops the perps name and that he was thrown from the 5th floor. He's now fighting for his life on life support.
Horrible story and if he survives it will be a miracle...not many survive an impact from a 50ft fall
You call this Despicable? Wait till they ban guns then you are going to read worst to what you are reading now...
And the thing that makes this crime so horrible and despicable, are all the adults that could have stopped this.
We, as human beings, need to stop turning a blind eye and ramming our heads into the sand. If you actually read a "full" article on the story, more than 1 neighbor actually stuck their heads out their doors... saw the child being dragged, kicking and screaming. Even if you "thought" they were only playing... at least make sure. I know the way I was raised and hopefully raised my own, if I had heard someone screaming, and even if I thought they were just playing, I would, and have, checked it out. In this case, someone even saw the child being dragged up a stairway. Did they think that was fun for the child? I at least would have tried to stop the dragging. Dragging IS NOT FUN. I would have at least said something, like "stop that, you're gonna hurt him doing that". Perhaps if anyone had stopped turning a blind eye and at least done that, this crime would have stopped.
But hey, guess no one feels like standing up for a child being abused, dragged, and even thrown off a roof by someone much more older and bigger and stronger.... until it's their own.
How sad we as citizens are for continually turning a blind eye to all that we see, everyday. We're becoming a nation of cowards and the violence grows.
See its better than a gun shooting..People are finding ways of killing with out firing a shot...This makes 1001 ways to die...
you gun nuts are shameless. sad. pathetic. In the time it took that 17yd old to dragged that boy up to the roof and throw him from it causing him horrible damage, if he has a bushmaster in his hands during that outburst of anger, he not only could have killed that little boy, but also taken out half the floor.
idiot.
Rob in Warwick is a phag
John Haddock is nothing more than a stupid man with a little cock!
best you got, little johnnie?
Maybe Aska put his own family in deep danger? What if the 9 year old has them thug uncles poor Aska gets more bad news in jail.
I wouldn't be surprised if he has an "accident" while he is in jail.
17 year-old "getting into a fight" with a 9 year-old?
Number one rule to win a fight. Don't pick on anyone who is bigger, stronger, or better armed than you. That's why criminals are for gun control.
"Don't overestimate the decency of the human race." H.L. Menken
Mom in Illinois... That was my first thought as well but remember, when trying to fight fire with fire, the firemen usually use water.
John Haddock... Still don't have it straight? Your problem is obvious. I believe the medical term is cranial-rectal inversion. Does it hurt your ears when you try to pull your head out? Just wondering. Try the douche in your ear and see if that works.
No doubt? No mistake? NO Delay
oh my goodness, how can you commit a crime without a GUN?????? what is this country coming to????? just to remind you moron leftists, where theres a will theres a way???????
and if that angry 17 year old had a bushmaster in his hands at the time of his angry outburst that led him to drag that 9 year old up to the roof and throw him over........he could have killed the 9yr old and half the people in the building.
idiot.
Rob -
You have proven your hoplophobia. Pick up your saluditory bumper sticker at the DNC.
California has a 3 strikes law since 1994. 3 violent crimes you go to jail for life.
Murder is down about 50%
Rape is down about 30%
Robbery is down about 50%
Assaults are down about 50%
I think that this 17 year old would qualify as a 3 striker. He has 4 priors including Assault and robbery this would make his 3rd strike and he is OUT!
If you take the criminals off the streets crime goes down along with gun violence,knife violence, baseball bat violence and any other kind of violence you can name.
Maybe the Federeal Gov't or the other States should look into this law. It seems to be working very well here in California.
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Sorry. Federal NOT Federeal.
My bad.
This is nothing new, when I was ten my 21 year old brother tried to toss me off an 11th floor balcony, the only reason he failed was I managed to grab the railing and swing myself back on to the balcony and fortunitly the patio door was open, I fled out of the apartment...
This is nothing new, it just gets more news coverage than it used to.
Great Brother !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awful Mike...Glad you saved yourself...Makes me happy to be an only child...
Trust2112: You must be a liberal idiot. Here you go blaming the republican party for the healthcare system that is in place now. For your limited ability to comprehend truth, it was the democrats who got the obamacare in place and has implimented the death panel to make sure the elderly will not recieve all the care they need to survive after the age 65. So, get your facts straight. Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot that you are a liberal democrat, so it is okay for you to say anything (truth or lie) to get the liberal agenda through.
All Liberal Democrats are Honest law abiding Citizens and only lie when they open their mouths
And those comments have what to do with the topic of this thread?
It's pretty evident that you former Fox Noise posters miss the Fox comment sections. Why don't you start a petition to get Fox Noise to bring back public commenting?
Talk about not having your facts straight! Goatroper, there is no death penalty - it's not true, nor is anything else Sarah Palin said. Everything wrong with the healthcare reform, such as currently rising insurance premiums, are because Republicans insisted that preventative provisions be removed before they would consider supporting the bill. As you know, they duped the Democrats, as the Repubs didn't support it anyway. Now, back to the topic at hand...
liberals need to be pushed off rooftops
John Haddock is nothing more than a stupid man with a little cock!
@!$%# happens...unfortunately this poor 9 year old got into a fight with someone twice his age and probably certifiable and on a roof no less. This and other incidents of violence do not indicate that the US has a wide-spread problem with violence...if that were so, this story wouldn't even be reported because it would just be an everyday occurance....nothing unusual.
Guess you didn't read the whole story, you can find it all over the net. The 9 year old boy was DRAGGED from his apartment where his grandmother was baby sitting him when the 17 year old neighbor who was there and he got into an argument over a video game... he dragged the boy out of the 3rd floor apartment, down the hall, up stairs to the roof of a 5 story building, across the roof to the edge and threw him off. And here is MHO of it all:
We, as human beings, need to stop turning a blind eye and ramming our heads into the sand. If you actually read a "full" article on the story, more than 1 neighbor actually stuck their heads out their doors... saw the child being dragged, kicking and screaming. Even if you "thought" they were only playing... at least make sure. I know the way I was raised and hopefully raised my own, if I had heard someone screaming, and even if I thought they were just playing, I would, and have, checked it out. In this case, someone even saw the child being dragged up a stairway. Did they think that was fun for the child? I at least would have tried to stop the dragging. Dragging IS NOT FUN. I would have at least said something, like "stop that, you're gonna hurt him doing that". Perhaps if anyone had stopped turning a blind eye and at least done that, this crime would have stopped.
But hey, guess no one feels like standing up for a child being abused, dragged, and even thrown off a roof by someone much more older and bigger and stronger.... until it's their own.
How sad we as citizens are for continually turning a blind eye to all that we see, everyday. We're becoming a nation of cowards and the violence grows.
Yes, Grandma is a coward. The mother out on crack is the hero who we all should pay additional taxes to support. You nailed it !!!
once again, black people contributing to society. thank you, africa.
ban 5-story buildings!
Reno, I'd like you to say that to my friend who is a 6'4" black, female 20 year army vet....... troll.
Guess the Obama/Biden administration will now seek legislation banning "assault roofs" and forcing property owners to register all roofs over 3 stories in height was lethal weapons.
Violence is not new but the age and types of crimes show a terrible sickness in the youth of today. This is not the first run in with the law. Why is he even out walking the streets. Severe punishment for these youths regardless of their age is now called for.
Was the 9 year old packen; Nope! no one can carry a 32 oz drink in NYC, maybe a Double Quarter Pounder, Nope! you'd be put in the Food Jail.
Be safe on the street's Npoe! safe at home, Nope! on the way to school, NOPE!!.Really sad..
Been to NYC a few time's you couldn't give me the whole city, at any price. Best thing I can say is SALE it to China sure they can use a new dump site...The counts are so over run with case's you can't get a trail date for 6 months, and the jail's are over full. The Towel heads have taken over the Cab Companies, the Gangs have taken over the street's, the Mugger's and Raper's have taken over the Park system along with the Pan Handler's... Drug Dealer's on every corner of the back street's......Ole saying (one bad apple in the barrel) Guess what in The Big Apple the whole barrel is BAD, From Cop's on the take, right up to The Mayor himself, Michael BloomBrain....Same in CHI-TOWN only people are safe there, The Police, Crooks and City Officials, Cops got guns, Crooks got bigger guns and the City Officials have armed protection, even Fox News in NYC has armed protection in and around their building at ALL TIMES.... Really sad about the 9 year old Child being threw from a roof top to the street below...Now his life is in danger of being lost for what??? How can a 9 year old child poses a danger to a 17 year old person. The 17 year old need his A$$ put under the jail and his mom and dad if he's got one right next to him... Let him fined out just how nice it is to be someone little SheHe in jail..He's a PUNK, and needs to be treated like one....Mayor Bloombill is more worried about what the people are eating in his NYC, then getting this type of nut off the streets.. He's more worried about Fat Donut eating Cops and Fat A$$ crooks, that NYC finest couldn't run down if they wanted to. NYC Finest couldn't fine a Hot Dog if they were in the middle of Conely Island........Best part of it washed into the Aliantic Ocean with the rest of the TRASH....Just really sad about the 9 year old...But in a city like New York who's going to miss one littlle child.... Not the Mayor his is protected my New Yorks Finest...Man ain't that a joke.. But no ones LAUGLING BUB-A
James Bown, contrary to what you may think, it IS important that you learn to spell and use proper grammar if you want people to take you seriously.
I understand there's a good chance you had a crummy English teacher, dropped out of school, or had parents who didn't encourage you to read, but it's NEVER too late to learn.
If you really want to make a difference with your words, you need people to read and understand them, otherwise you're just spouting meaningless jibberish. I sense a lot of anger and frustration in your words, but I'm not sure what you're saying because your spelling is so bad.
Get creative and find a way to improve your writing skills. It could change your life for the better. Look what it did for Malcolm X, while he was alive that is.
First, actually read the whole story before commenting. Second, this was avoidable and preventable. However, I doubt you will even be able to grasp any of the following.
We, as human beings, need to stop turning a blind eye and ramming our heads into the sand. If you actually read a "full" article on the story, more than 1 neighbor actually stuck their heads out their doors... saw the child being dragged, kicking and screaming. Even if you "thought" they were only playing... at least make sure. I know the way I was raised and hopefully raised my own, if I had heard someone screaming, and even if I thought they were just playing, I would, and have, checked it out. In this case, someone even saw the child being dragged up a stairway. Did they think that was fun for the child? I at least would have tried to stop the dragging. Dragging IS NOT FUN. I would have at least said something, like "stop that, you're gonna hurt him doing that". Perhaps if anyone had stopped turning a blind eye and at least done that, this crime would have stopped.
But hey, guess no one feels like standing up for a child being abused, dragged, and even thrown off a roof by someone much more older and bigger and stronger.... until it's their own.
How sad we as citizens are for continually turning a blind eye to all that we see, everyday. We're becoming a nation of cowards and the violence grows.
We are NOT teaching kids any problem-solving skills in school. Many parents don't teach them because they don't know how to solve their problems either. They resort to using a weapon or slapping someone around.
Kids are just imitating the violent reactions they see and hear, and that's just about everywhere it seems...