Family’s attorney says ‘now it’s time to act’ after 11-year-old Olathe girl badly injured in alleged hate crime incident
by: Jessica Eley
Posted: Sep 1, 2020 / 08:23 PM CDT / Updated: Sep 1, 2020 / 08:23 PM CDT
OLATHE, Kan. — A 12-year-old boy is on house arrest and an 11-year-old girl is so badly injured she ended up in the hospital. The fallout of a weekend assault, labeled a racial attack.
Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe says his office is working on getting to the bottom of what caused the child to use racial slurs and then pick up a pipe and hit the girl in the face.
Eleven-year-old Nevaeh Thomas is recovering after she was attacked with a metal pipe by a 12-year-old boy in Shawnee on Friday. It happened during a play date.
Nevaeh’s mother says the boy walked up to her while playing and called her racial slurs. She responded with ‘my black is beautiful.’ That’s when Nevaeh said the boy hit her int he face with a pipe.
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