BOSTON — Three teenage girls have been charged after allegedly harassing and assaulting a woman on a Red Line train after boarding at the Savin Hill MBTA stop.
Prosecutors say the 49-year-old victim boarded the train around 7:40 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 7, at which point the teens allegedly began mocking the woman’s accent and telling her to “go back to [her] own country.”
The woman then went to leave her seat, at which point the girls blocked her, prosecutors said. One of them then repeatedly punched and struck her in the face with a cell phone.
“We want to make sure that everyone feels safe and secure, no matter who they are, where they’re from, how they speak, or how they define their families. There’s no room for behavior like this – period,” Suffolk County DA Dan Conley said.
A witness pressed the train’s emergency call button to report the assault at Andrew Station and another witness told Transit Police the girls were “celebrating” as they got off the train.
All three girls are 15 years old, two are from Dorchester and one from Mattapan. They have all been released into their parents’ custody and ordered to stay away from each other, the victim, and witnesses.
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