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Criminal parents teaching their kids how to steal and rob businesses. These kids are as young as 8 years old.
The parents tell them what to do in the business and they wait outside for their kids to finish stealing....
The kiddie crime wave began about eight months ago, when two children repeatedly wreaked havoc at Amsterdam Ale House on West 76th Street on the Upper West Side, at first taking whatever they could snatch from unattended bags.
Things swiftly got out of hand in February when the pair grabbed food off a table, pushed a customer and flashed a knife, said manager Whitney Kaufman.
“I watched a kid take a wing off someone’s plate and eat it,” Kaufman said.
“I went to escort him out and he cursed at me. The 8-year-old turned around and said to me, ‘I don’t have to do anything you say fat lady’ and punched me in the stomach. He ran into the back of the restaurant, stole a child’s toy. Then grabbed a knife off the table and wielded it like a weapon. They shoved a guest.”
On Monday at 8:30 p.m. at Lexington Publick on Lexington Avenue and East 97th Street, one little thief got about $700 in petty cash from the safe, said the bar’s manager, who asked to remain anonymous.
“The kid goes over, he opens the bathroom door, looks behind him to make sure no one’s looking, and then he closes the bathroom door audibly, so that it sounds like he went in the bathroom,” she said, after reviewing surveillance video.
“And then he just slipped right down into the office downstairs.”
nypost.com
The parents tell them what to do in the business and they wait outside for their kids to finish stealing....
The kiddie crime wave began about eight months ago, when two children repeatedly wreaked havoc at Amsterdam Ale House on West 76th Street on the Upper West Side, at first taking whatever they could snatch from unattended bags.
Things swiftly got out of hand in February when the pair grabbed food off a table, pushed a customer and flashed a knife, said manager Whitney Kaufman.
“I watched a kid take a wing off someone’s plate and eat it,” Kaufman said.
“I went to escort him out and he cursed at me. The 8-year-old turned around and said to me, ‘I don’t have to do anything you say fat lady’ and punched me in the stomach. He ran into the back of the restaurant, stole a child’s toy. Then grabbed a knife off the table and wielded it like a weapon. They shoved a guest.”
On Monday at 8:30 p.m. at Lexington Publick on Lexington Avenue and East 97th Street, one little thief got about $700 in petty cash from the safe, said the bar’s manager, who asked to remain anonymous.
“The kid goes over, he opens the bathroom door, looks behind him to make sure no one’s looking, and then he closes the bathroom door audibly, so that it sounds like he went in the bathroom,” she said, after reviewing surveillance video.
“And then he just slipped right down into the office downstairs.”
Problem Child: Kids are being used to rob NYC businesses
A crime tale straight out of Charles Dickens is unfolding with adults “directing” children who appear no older than 10 to steal from unsuspecting businesses, witnesses told The Post.
nypost.com
