Suspects in NYC shopping cart toss plead not guilty

(CBS/WCBS) NEW YORK - Two 12-year-old boys that were arrested and charged with assault after allegedly tossing a shopping cart over a railing pleaded not guilty on Friday, according to WCBS.

The suspects are being charged as juveniles and face reckless endangerment and depraved indifference charges in addition to assault.

Now Marion Salmon Hedges, the woman hit by the falling cart, remains in critical condition at Harlem Hospital

The mother of one of two boys accused of injuring Hedges by tossing a shopping cart from a fourth-floor walkway outside a Target store on Sunday in Harlem, delivered a tearful message Friday, reports WCBS.

"To the family that got affected, everybody, the three of us, their other kid, them. It's a terrible thing and I hope she recuperates. I really, really, really feel for her and her children," said an emotional Rosemary Rosario said, adding that her son was "really sorry."

Meanwhile, the other boy's family left the courtroom in tears earlier because the pair was ordered back into custody by the judge.

Michael Hedges recently said his wife will require months of rehabilitation due to neurological damage. However, Hedges' family said it will use the tragedy to promote a good cause. They told the New York Daily News they plan to create a foundation to aid wayward inner city youth.

Earlier this week, Michael Hedges said his family hopes the boys get help.

"They're not adults. They're children, and children who have been left on their own without supervision," he told WCBS.