Three teenage girls were arrested this week in connection with the alleged anti-white assault of four schoolgirls on a Bronx bus — just as the victims’ families notified the city of their intent to sue for emotional and physical damages, according to police and the schoolgirls’ lawyer.
Miracle and Mollychi Rattray, 17 and 16 respectively, and a 15-year-old girl whose name was not released were arrested Monday and charged with gang assault in the Nov. 22 attack, cops said.
The incident happened as the four girls, 10th graders at St. Catharine’s Academy in Pelham Gardens, were riding an MTA bus home in the direction of Throggs Neck, the girls told the Post.
At first, two black boys on the bus started taunting them, but then the boys called a group of female friends who joined them on the bus and physically attacked the white girls, they said.
“They’re physically injured, and they’re psychologically scarred,” lawyer Scott Seskin said of his 15-year-old clients. “They’re frightened to use mass transit, and they’re also frightened in general that something’s going to happen to them.”
Seskin has filed notices of claim against the MTA, New York City Transit and the bus agencies, he said, and is seeking $10 million for each the girls and $2 million each for their parents.
The MTA confirmed that it had received the notices of claim.
Seskin also said that the girls are upset that city officials haven’t spoken up about the incident, while other recent hate crimes have gotten their attention.
“The mayor and borough president [are] taking about everything other than this,” Seskin said. “This bothers them that they’re being excluded from what they believe to be a very serious incident…They feel like it’s being swept under the rug.”