A mentally ailing girl who randomly shoved a helpless commuter right into a transferring subway automotive in Instances Sq. was sentenced to greater than a decade behind bars Thursday — because the sufferer recalled pondering she was in a “scene from a horror film” on the time.
Anthonia Egegbara, 32, was slapped with 12 years in jail by Manhattan Supreme Courtroom Choose Brendan Lantry for the 2021 assault that left 42-year-old New Jersey girl Lenny Javier with a number of accidents, together with a damaged arm that required surgical procedure.
“I discovered myself in some a part of a nightmare, like a scene from a horror film that I’ve watched earlier than,” Javier stated in a sufferer influence assertion learn in courtroom by Manhattan Assistant District Legal professional Andrea Kimmel.
“My life was shattered. The nightmare stayed and continued ever since,” Javier, who was not on the sentencing listening to, wrote.
Egegbara, who suffers from schizophrenia, had been out with out bail for 3 months on the time of the Oct. 4, 2021 assault for a separate assault on one other straphanger.
The sufferer, Jasmine Robles, was attacked by Egegbara on an A practice, struggling a damaged nostril, bloody eye, knocked out tooth and extreme PTSD.
Egegbara was charged with third-degree assault, a misdemeanor, in that case, which was dismissed after she flunked her psychological analysis examination, her protection lawyer stated.
She had confronted as much as 25 years in jail on an tried homicide cost for the assault on Javier — earlier than she pleaded responsible August 8 to a lesser rap of first-degree assault as a part of a cope with the Manhattan District Legal professional’s Workplace.
Egegbara was sitting on a bench contained in the forty second Avenue subway station when she stood up, walked over to Javier and all of a sudden pushed her into an oncoming northbound 3 practice, prosecutors stated.
Javier sustained a number of injures, together with a damaged arm, bleeding and bruising to the face. Egegbara fled from the station however was arrested a day later.
“The worry crawled into my life like an insect. The query ‘Why me?’ stayed in my thoughts, disrupting my religion, my perspective, my temper and my calm,” the sufferer stated in her assertion, including that she nonetheless feels stiffness in her arm and suffers nervousness from the assault.
Egegbara’s lawyer, Adam Mehrfar, stated his shopper’s psychological situation on the time of the assault performed “some half” in her actions, however that she hopes the sufferer is therapeutic and feels higher.
“I actually apologize for my actions,” Egegbara stated in a quick assertion to the choose.
Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg stated that he hopes Egebara’s sentencing provides some aid to the victims.
“Anthonia Egegbara will serve a big state jail time period for viciously shoving a lady, who was on her morning commute, right into a practice because it entered the station,” Bragg stated in a press release. “The assault left the sufferer with stiffness and ache from her accidents to today. I hope the decision on this case can supply the sufferer a way of justice.”
