“The mom of an accused teen iPhone thief has a message for the Brooklyn woman who chased her son down and held him in a bear hug for cops: Good for you!” Reuven Fenton reports for The New York Post. “‘If it was my phone, I would have chased his ass, too!’ said the mom, whose 13-year-old boy was collared by his mugging victim Friday in Williamsburg. ‘She did whatever she felt was necessary,’ the mother added. ‘She thought she was in good shape to do it, so good for her.'”
“The mom, whose name is being withheld because her son is a juvenile, said the kid has been grounded for ‘I don’t know how long,'” Fenton reports. “‘He’s paying the consequences for what he did,’ she said.”
“The teen and two pals allegedly targeted Clara Vondrich at 1:20 p.m. Friday as she made a business call near a coffee shop on South Third Street. The boy allegedly pushed the 36-year-old woman, ripped her iPhone from her hand and sprinted off, sources said,” Fenton reports. “Vondrich raced after them, despite wearing thick wedge heels. She grabbed the 13-year-old, and the other two got away. She then held the boy for about two minutes until cops arrived and charged him with felony robbery as a juvenile.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
A good mother saying her son needs to take responsibly for his action. Not, “Oh my son is a good boy….” Congrats to her for trying to teach her son.
Someone in MO could have seriously used some of this mother’s stewardship when he was 13 also. Then maybe when he was 18, he wouldn’t have done stupid stuff!
Those kind need a father to keep their asses in line. That’s the problem with all these unmarried woman popping out babies like a Pez dispenser. And I’m not just referring to blacks either.
I think that unmarried men have something to do with the dispensing.
Very true, but the women have ultimate control, and seem to have no restraint in doling out their favors. It appalls me to listen to young people talk about having sex from the time they reach puberty. I guess they feel entitled since they are pumped full of the notion of self-esteem from the time they start school.
Sounds like a case of good mother, bad friends. (Every good mother’s nightmare.)
——RM
I don’t know how good a mother she is.
He’s already on the path. We can probably pick out which prison cell he’s going to live in when he turns 21, if he doesn’t get caught in front of some cop’s gun.
The bear hug that Fenton put him in might be the strongest love he’s ever experienced.
His training to be a member of society should have started when he was a toddler. Don’t hurt people, don’t steal their stuff. A bunch of crap about Jesus is too ethereal to take root. Just give simple descriptions of how many ways you can hurt people. Help him to develop empathy. The lessons have to come every day.
If you want something, you have to earn it. And on and on. Saving money. Building wealth. Learning to look for bargains with his money. Entrepreneurship. Understanding what capitalism is at an early age so he won’t be told crap about what it really isn’t later on.
He needs to learn honor. The value of truth and more than anything else… the value of C H A R A C T E R.
Curfews. They shouldn’t be out in those streets where all the other thugs, miscreants, and brutes hang out. In fact, they should be allowed only to go to school, come directly home, and if they go outside be no more than a block away from home.
After sun down, kids should be inside, demonstrably finishing homework. When that is over, they should be allowed to read things that are fun for them. READ. Not watch TV.
Eat dinner together every night. Engage him in conversation. Choose books and movies to watch TOGETHER. Tell him about what you do for a living no matter what it is. Describe how you get along with people in the world.
When they need computers, a computer doesn’t cost any more than a pair of high end sneakers now, and use of that computer needs to be supervised.
It’s a 24×7 job, parenting. Television is no babysitter. The government is not your baby daddy. I can tell just reading this there’s probably no father in the home and I wouldn’t be surprised if there are more children.
Sadly it might be too late for this kid. He’s already opted for thuggery.
It’s hard. Extremely hard for some people, who work 2 jobs, late hours, etc. to make ends meet, or just to survive. We’ve got to stop telling those people it’s ok to have children out of wedlock, and/or when you don’t have the resources to govern their development.
Cause once they grow up, and start hurting people and stealing their stuff, the media will blame society.
“I don’t know how good a mother she is.”
Then perhaps you should reserve your comments.
Ok, I’l be clear. If he’s already SnGing, she’s not that great of a mother.
You mean that 13 year old won’t get the same second chance as David Cash Jr who stood and did nothing when girl was killed.
Let’s just say that as a response to this incident, the woman shows the proper attitude as a mother. I had a good mother, but still did some stupid, anti-social things at age 13. And like this woman, had I been caught she would have been the first condemn me and my actions. This kid may have had the luckiest day of his life to have been caught and punished. Hope he learns a valuable life lesson.
“It’s hard. Extremely hard for some people, who work 2 jobs, late hours, etc. to make ends meet, or just to survive. We’ve got to stop telling those people it’s ok to have children out of wedlock, and/or when you don’t have the resources to govern their development.”
And so, in the midst of this economic war, where the 1% continue to accumulate wealth by annihilating the middle class, and forcing working people to work ever longer hours for ever lower (in real terms) wages, we somehow expect those workers to be exemplary parents, or not to be parents at all. People like Bloomberg get rich on the backs of rank and file Americans, while he tells them they can’t have large sodas because they’re fat, and wants to take their guns away because they’re a threat to his power if they are armed. They’re fat because they are eating a crappy diet of fast food and cheap prepared food that’s mostly wheat flour. Their kids are out of control because we penalize families economically when there’s a dad in the home, and because you can’t be an effective parent when you’re working 60 hours a week to earn $48K per year. This while the typical CEO is making $48K per day. They are armed and violent because they have no hope. And if they wait to get rich to have kids they never will.
We’re seeing the results of this kind of elitist, neo-conservative thinking in Ferguson, MO today. The police are becoming ever more militarized because the people are becoming more and more hopeless. Society is on the edge of a breakdown, and someday soon the citizens will start shooting back. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t advocate that, but I’m predicting it will happen, and soon. I fear for our republic, and I blame the radical Conservatives like Paul Ryan, and those who are complicit in their acceptance of such inhuman views. Thins are going to get a lot worse before they get better, if ever.
i know all i need to know about you when i read how you put Jesus and crap together in the same sentence. shame!!
So when she tells the state, “Oh thank you for putting him away,” does that make her a great mom? No.
I take your point. But it makes her a better mom than many, and that should be acknowledged.
Oh look. Yet another black on white crime. Probably not deadly because of his age. Give him a couple of years. He’ll fix that.
There are some fishy details about this case. First, the maximum retail price of the iPhone 5S 64GB contract free is $849, but the article says he’s being charged with felony theft, which in New York is an amount over $1,000.
Also, just days earlier (August 16), the same newspaper said in regards to the mother: “When reached at her home, the boy’s mom chided Vondrich for grabbing her son. “She has her hands all over him,” she said when she saw photos of the bust. “Why is she touching him like that?” “He’s a very good boy,” the mother added.”
Also, it’s kind of weird that she has no purse or scarf when she’s in the photos holding the boy, but later she has a purse and scarf “outside her apartment”. Did the photographer follow her home, and she run up and get her scarf and purse for the photo?
So because her son made a bad choice, she a bad mother? You obviously do not have children. I wish 10% of the parents of the children I caught took this woman’s position. As far as single parenting is concerned, I’ve locked up kids from all three groups (single mom/dad and two parent) houses. You want to know what really matters….being involved with your children. I would say this mother is. I wish all you with perfect children all the best and let me know how you make that night one of my brothers come knocking on your door.