May 13, 2008
Sun coverage: City bus attack
Jean Marbella: Bus case points to sad truth about us
Many words have been spilled on the bus beating case in which a group of middle school students attacked a fellow passenger and nearly blinded her, and Circuit Judge David W. Young has heard just about all of them - in the courtroom as he presided over it, of course, but also in e-mails, on the phone and even on the street, where passers-by would accost him.
After beating on bus, victim rebuilding life
Sarah Kreager had picked up her prescription anti-depressant and boarded the No. 27 bus in Hampden that would take her and her boyfriend downtown to a methadone clinic.
Teens tried to stonewall police
In assembling a case against a group accused of beating a passenger aboard a city bus, police had to sort through conflicting statements from middle school students who appeared streetwise beyond their years.
5 students responsible for attack
A Baltimore juvenile court judge found five Robert Poole Middle School students responsible yesterday in the December attack on a city bus passenger and her boyfriend, concluding a divisive case fraught with racial overtones.
Gregory Kane: Bus case decision: Whom to believe?
Unique Curtis' testimony didn't help her five schoolmates, who were all found responsible yesterday for assaulting Sarah Kreager, who was punched, beaten and kicked in the face Dec. 4 and left lying in a gutter with one eye swollen shut and the socket broken in two places.
Students in city bus assault seek dismissal of charges
Defense attorneys for five middle school students accused of beating a woman aboard a city bus in December asked a judge yesterday to dismiss the petitions, or charges, against their clients.
Gregory Kane: N-word mystery in MTA bus assault case
Danny Williams is black. That's important to this story.
Bus driver says boy who kicked woman not on trial
The driver of the city bus on which a woman was severely beaten testified yesterday that he remembered the boy who kicked her in the face but that he wasn't among the accused in the courtroom.
Witness testifies in bus beating
The Hampden resident who came to the aid of a woman beaten aboard a city bus testified yesterday that she saw a group of children kicking and punching the victim but said she could not identify any of the teens accused in the case.
Gregory Kane: A hero emerges in bus beating
Joyce King may well have saved Sarah Kreager's life.
Boyfriend of bus assault victim denies provoking
The boyfriend of a woman beaten aboard a city bus denied yesterday that he ordered her to either spit on or use a racial slur against the teens accused of attacking her.
Bus victim says she can identify only 1 attacker
A woman who was severely beaten last year on a city bus told a juvenile court judge yesterday that she could identify only one of the teens accused of attacking her over an empty seat.
Girl, 14, admits role in attack
A 14-year-old girl in juvenile court admitted yesterday her role in an attack on a city bus passenger - a brawl in which nearly every student aboard "rose up en masse," prosecutors said, to join in a fight over an empty seat.
Beating victim tells of a tough life
Sarah Kreager said yesterday that her life was already at its "toughest" point when she was attacked on a city bus on her way to get a prescription filled.
Officials take on bus safety
School, transit and police officials told city lawmakers yesterday that they have taken steps to improve student safety on city buses in the wake of a recent spate of violence.
Confinement continues for 9 in bus attack
A Baltimore judge approved yesterday new charges against the nine middle school students accused in the beating of a homeless woman on a city bus and ordered all of the teenagers to remain confined to their homes and out of school.
Gregory Kane: It's 'little dear' justice in city
The Nine Little Dears from Robert Poole Middle School accused in the attack on Sarah Kreager and others aboard a Maryland Transit Administration bus in early December were arraigned in juvenile court yesterday.
MTA to foster cooperation with school, city police
After a series of violent incidents on its buses in Baltimore, the Maryland Transit Administration will announce plans today to improve cooperation with city law enforcement agencies.
MTA looks at racial role in city bus attack
Maryland Transit Administration Police said last night that they have found no evidence that the severe beating of a 26-year-old woman on a city bus this week was provoked and that they are investigating the attack as a possible racially motivated hate crime.
Woman injured in bus beating
The woman and her boyfriend boarded the No. 27 bus and tried to find a seat as it traveled through North Baltimore.
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