Teens in videotaped Bridgeport beating placed on electronic monitoring
BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN Criminal Courts Reporter rhussain@suntimes.com January 24, 2012 12:54PM
Screengrab of the brutal beating and robbery of a 17-year-old boy in a Bridgeport alleyway on Sunday, January 15, 2012, an attack that was captured on video and later posted on YouTube.
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Updated: February 26, 2012 8:10AM
Just a week after the teenage son of a Cook County sheriff’s deputy was ordered held in lieu of $100,000 bail for his alleged role in a brutal videotaped attack, the child of another sheriff’s officer appeared in Juvenile Court on Tuesday to face charges related to the beating.
“He’s really sorry for what happened,” attorney Peter Garbis said of the 16-year-old boy, whose father oversees adult suspects at the criminal courthouse at 26th and California. “This isn’t how he was raised.”
Judge Terrence Sharkey ordered the boy and six co-defendants — ages 15 and 16 — to be placed on electronic monitoring as they await trial for the Jan. 15 attack in Bridgeport.
The teens’ alleged accomplice, Raymond Palomino, 17, was charged as an adult and placed behind bars after his father, also a sheriff’s deputy, turned him in last week.
Rummana Hussain
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