A 16-year-old girl was arrested Tuesday on assault charges for the viral caught-on-camera attack of a Nevada mom as she was riding a Manhattan train with her family last week, police said.
The teenager — whose name was not released due to her young age — turned herself in to the NYPD Tuesday morning at about 9:45 a.m. in the same area where the shocking beatdown allegedly took place aboard an F train.
The girl is accused of pummeling 51-year-old Sue Young in front of her young daughters and husband, as well as bystander Joanna Lin when she began filming the teen harassing the family who was visiting from Nevada.
She was charged with two counts of assault Tuesday.
The NYPD initially said its hate crimes unit was investigating the alleged assault because the girl targeted Young and her family who are Asian, but no hate crime charges were lodged against the teen and both victims said they do not believe the girl attacked them because of their race.
The 16-year-old and her two friends — who are not wanted by the police — began laughing and pointing at the family as they sat across from them on a southbound F train approaching West 4th Street on Thursday night, Young told The Post.
The mom of 11-year-old twins said she started laughing with them to try to stop their apparent taunts, but that only enraged the trio of teen girls.
Their cackles turned to insults, expletives and threats causing other straphangers to try to intervene as the girls got up and stood over the family, according to a video of the violent encounter.
Lin, 34, took out her phone and began recording the interaction.
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But when the teen who was arrested saw that she was being filmed, she stormed over and allegedly punched Lin multiple times, both Lin and Young said.
“One of the girls stood up and went to Joanna and just punched her. I mean, punch, punch, punch, like repeatedly. I saw at least three, maybe two or three,” Young told The Post, adding that is when she decided to stand up.
Another girl got in Young’s face and was screaming at her so Young pushed her away to try to get to Lin and the 16-year-old turned her attention to the mom, she said.
“Well, as soon as I made contact and pushed her shoulders away, they all came after me. I backed up, but the girl in the white t-shirt came slugging at me… She grabbed my hair, I grabbed her hair, and I basically just grabbed onto her hair to shield my face because she was swinging,” Young recalled.
Her glasses were thrown off her face and smashed, and her arm was bruised when it got caught between two handrails during the assault, she said.
Other straphangers then intervened and were able to protect the family and Lin by separating them from the girls and the victims got off at the next stop.
Lin, who said she’d do it all over again despite the bruising she suffered, told The Post Tuesday night that she was glad the teen took some responsibility for her actions and hopes she gets help.
“I am relieved that she made the decision to turn herself in. In a perfect world, I would love if she can issue an apology to myself and Sue Young, and promise to never ever do this again,” Lin said. “I also hope she gets therapy, counseling and mentorship needed to move up from here.”
