January 28, 2010
Source: My Central Jersey
A judge ruled Thursday that an Edison teenager who punched a Jewish man last September did so because of the victim's religion, authorities said.
In the ruling, the judge found the 17-year-old delinquent of third-degree aggravated assault and second-degree bias intimidation of the victim, a 19-year-old township man, Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan said in a news release.
Superior Court Judge Roger W. Daley placed the juvenile on probation for one year and ordered him to repay the victim $630, Kaplan said. That sum is to cover medical co-payments, broken eye glasses and the cost of cleaning the religious garb he was wearing when he was punched and knocked to the ground.