Attack susp’s mom: I wanted to kill him

But says son charged in beating of girl good kid

The mother of the one of the teens charged in the caughton-camera beatdown of a 15year-old Brooklyn girl defended her son as a good kid Saturday — but admitted she was furious with him.

“When I saw the video I literally wanted to kill him with my own hands,” said Donna Howell, 42, while waiting for her son’s arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court. “I was very, very pissed off.”

Howell’s 14-year-old is one of five teens between the ages of 14 and 17 who were charged with robbery and gang assault after turning themselves in at the 77th Precinct stationhouse Friday night.

“He didn’t want to go at first and I said, ‘No you’re going to go, you’re going to turn yourself in,’ ” she recalled. Howell then left the house to run an errand, and found her son gone when she came back.

“He had just walked and turned himself in [to police],” she said.

Four of five suspects who turned themselves in were arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court on Saturday night — all of them accompanied by their mothers. The Daily News is withholding their names because of their ages.

Judge Deepa Ambekar denied prosecutors’ request for $10,000 bail on each suspect, and instead released the boys on their own recognizance.

However, Ambekar imposed curfews on each suspect, and ordered them to stay away from the victim.

None of the suspects knew the victim, lawyers said during the arraignment hearings. Fourteen more suspects are sought in the attack.

Surveillance video of the assault sparked condemnation from elected officials.

“I have never seen in my lifetime this kind of incident where young men perpetrate this kind of violence on an innocent woman,” City Councilman Robert Cornegy (DBrooklyn) said Saturday. “I remember growing up under mob mentality in Brooklyn.

There were still rules and the rules said that women were untouchable.”

The video shows the 15year-old girl being chased to the corner of Utica Ave. and Sterling Place on Thursday afternoon before being knocked to the ground. A horde of teens then descend upon her, repeatedly kicking and punching the victim as she curls up to avoid the blows, the video shows.

The attackers stole the girl’s sneakers, cell phone and a debit card before scattering.

The victim’s neighbors describe her as a quiet girl who lives with her mother and sister.

“She doesn’t get in trouble, she doesn’t deserve that,” said 13-year-old neighbor Jacob Black. “She’s a basketball player, that’s all she does.”

“She goes to school and comes home. She’s quiet,” said a next-door neighbor who declined to share her name. “Those were animals. I can’t see how those young boys did that to her.”

Howell said her son, the middle child of three boys, has had little interaction with police and she was shocked to hear of his alleged involvement.

“I don’t know what else I can say to them [the victim’s parents] except I’m so sorry, I feel very bad for her,” she said. “I’m a woman, and if he had a sister he would never want anyone to treat her like that.”