ALON HARISH
Five people face charges for allegedly terrorizing a Jewish summer camp in Pennsylvania.
In three separate episodes earlier this month, three adults and two
juveniles caused property damage as they sped dangerously through Camp
Bonim in Wayne County in a pickup truck, shouting anti-Semitic epithets
and firing paintball guns at campers and staff, District Attorney Janine
Edwards said in a press release. The three adults were arrested
Wednesday morning and face felony and misdemeanor charges, including
ethnic intimidation, terroristic threats and assault.
"These children were terrorized and in fear for their lives by the
actions of this group," Edwards said in the release. "The vicious, cruel
and obscene nature of the language hurled at the campers is
unspeakable. Luckily none of the children suffered any serious physical
injury, however, the emotional damage is immeasurable."
A judge arraigned Tyler Spencer, an 18-year-old from Linden, Tenn., and
set his bail at $200,000. Spencer is accused of attempting to hit
campers as he drove the Ford-350 pickup truck carrying the group.
Spencer's alleged accomplices, Mark Trail, 21, and Cassandra Robertson,
18, both of Wayne County, were held on $20,000 bail. A 17-year-old and a
16-year-old face juvenile court cases.
In the first episode on July 14, Spencer told police that he drove in
circles at a high speed to damage several fields on the Bonim campus,
according to a police affidavit obtained by ABC News. When he returned
with the same group of passengers the next day, Spencer said they ripped
the camp's mailbox out of the ground before driving into the camp.
Police said Mark Trail then yelled racial slurs such as "You f***ing
Jews go back where you came from" and "I'm gonna kill you, you f***ing
Jews." During that episode, 18-year-old camper Alan Rosen was struck in
the leg by a shot from a paintball gun while walking near the camp's
synagogue, according to the affidavit, filed by Pennsylvania State
Trooper John Decker.
At around 2:30 a.m. the next morning, campers saw the group doing "360s"
in the camp's quad area before the truck came chasing after one of
them, according to the affidavit. The campers told police the truck only
missed them by about 10 feet.
"Because of what goes on out there in the world, people get scared
quick, and that's what they were trying to accomplish," said Dovid
Presser, Camp Bonim's director.
Though the incidents quickly became the "talk of the camp," he said,
most of the camp's 300 children, which age from 6 to 20, did not appear
terribly concerned for their safety in the days that followed. The
camp's administrators, though, took the incidents very seriously, he
said. A caretaker called Honesdale, Pa., police after the group's first
intrusion on July 14, according to the affidavit.
On July 16, one day after the last incident at Camp Bonim, Spencer was
charged with aggravated assault for allegedly driving into a counselor
from the camp outside a local Turkey Hill store, breaking his leg.
Spencer fled the scene, and was caught later that day by New York state
police near Hancock, N.Y.
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1 comment:
White trash with more than likely very lousy parents..
To be that age, misguided and filled with hate will lead to a bad end...
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