Woman, 71, heading to New Years Day church service fights back when teen girls attack, try to rob her in NYC subway station
A plucky elderly woman on her way to a New Year’s Day church service fought back when a violent group of teen girls pummeled her during a botched robbery inside a Brooklyn subway station, cops said.Linda Rosa, 71 – a retired MTA computer operation worker who lives in East New York – got off a No.3 train at Hoyt Street just after 6 p.m.
and had just passed through the turnstile when one of the four girls tried to grab her purse, she told The Post Friday. “And then I [said to myself], ‘Oh, no, this is not going to happen today,’” Rosa said. Then, another teen tried to grab Rosa’s bag too and said: “Oh, you want to fight?” Rosa continued holding tight to her purse, which didn’t discourage the young would-be robbers. “The first person kept fighting,” Rosa said.“She punched me in my face and I have my glasses on, and I have a cut on my nose.
When she punched me in my face, my glasses flew to the floor.”“Meanwhile the other young lady was still trying to distract me to get my pocketbook or go into my purse, to snatch something out of my purse,” she recalled. The teen ended up grabbing a pocket pouch that held Rosa’s ID and medical records, she said. “I was still wrestling with the first person,” Rosa said.“Then I was trying to kick her in between her legs, but my leg wouldn’t stretch far enough, so I believe that’s when I fell.
I fell, and then she stomped on me.” Rosa said she sensed that the hostile teens weren’t done yet, so she took action. “I got an impression in me that she was going to stomp me again, but she was going to aim towards my head,” she said.“So I got up right away, and with that, I grabbed her braids and twirled them around my right hand, and then I pulled her down.
She had her head down.Then the other young lady said, ‘Let her go.’ And I said, ‘Oh, no, I’m not letting her go.’”The senior yelled out for someone to help her – when she noticed that the second teen had tosse...