Two white girls, ages 10 and 11, face charges in assault on a 10-year-old African American girl on a school bus, in an incident that drew condemnation by Gov. Cuomo. A bus monitor was charged with endangering the welfare of a child for not intervening.
The alleged attack occurred Sept. 10 in Gouverneur village, about 100 miles north of Syracuse, officials said.in juvenile court, The New York Times reported. A 28-year-old bus monitor, who is also white, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child for not intervening.
"I am appalled by the reports of the horrendous, 20-minute racist assault on a 10-year-old African American girl in the town of Gouverneur," Cuomo said in a statement Wednesday. "That this was allegedly perpetrated by her own classmates, on a school bus with an adult monitor present, makes this incident even more shocking and troubling. When we put our children on the bus to school, we are entrusting others with our most precious resource and this was an egregious and inexcusable violation of that trust."
The small Gouverneur Central School District has about 1,500 students, of whom about 97 percent are white, according to the latest figures compiled by theGouverneur police and school officials could not be immediately reached for comment Thursday."In New York, violence of any kind towards others based on their race or religion is not only offensive and repugnant to our values, it is illegal," the governor added.
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