Att’y calls stab vic, 11, ‘delusional’
THE LawYEr for an alleged child murderer shredded the credibility of the prosecution’s star witness Thursday, an 11-year-old Brooklyn girl who survived a stabbing attack that killed her best friend.
Two days earlier, Mikayla Capers pointed out daniel St. Hubert in Brooklyn Supreme Court as the “mysterious man” who repeatedly stabbed her and Prince Joshua (P.J.) avitto in the elevator of the boy’s building at 845 Schenck ave. in East New York on June 1, 2014. P.J., who was just 6, died.
St. Hubert’s attorney, Howard Greenberg, discredited Mikayla on the stand when she said an officer or detective showed her a photo of the suspect while she was in the hospital recovering from 16 stab wounds.
“You’re making it up that a police officer showed you a picture in the hospital, aren’t you?” the lawyer asked softly.
“That’s not true,” Mikayla replied.
No law enforcement official ever showed Mikayla a photograph of St. Hubert in the almost four years the murder case was pending.
“The government lost this case today. This child is delusional,” Greenberg told reporters outside of court.
Mikayla’s great-grandmother, regenia Trevathan, was outraged. “She was only 7 years old at the time, now she’s 11, how is she supposed to remember everything?” Trevathan said.