Crime

Probation recommended in NYC shopping cart assault

By Crimesider Staff

January 18, 2012 / 10:51 AM EST / CBS News

Marion Salmon Hedges, 47, was injured Oct. 30, 2011, when a shopping cart hit her head after being dropped from a fourth-floor walkway. — Marion Salmon Hedges, 47, was injured Oct. 30, 2011, when a shopping cart tossed from a Harlem store's fourth-floor walkway hit her head. WCBS-TV

(CBS) NEW YORK - Probation officials are recommending no jail time for the younger of two boys who confessed to tossing a shopping cart onto a woman at a Harlem shopping center in October 2011.

The officials instead said they recommend "highly supervised" probation for Raymond Hernandez, 12.

The New York Post reported the proposal was made during sentencing proceedings in Manhattan Family Court.

No such recommendation has been made for Hernandez' friend and co-defendant, Jiovanni Rosario, 13.

The two boys pleaded guilty in November to assault for hurling the cart over a fourth-floor railing in the shopping center.

The cart fell on Marion Hedges, who suffered brain damage.

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