“It’s a TikTok fashion: they hit you and leave”: Father from NY tells how his girl was attacked

NY. ORNa moda del TikTok could be the cause of a girl from NYC she almost lost her teeth, after three young men attacked her until she was bleedingin front of a McDonalds in the city.

According to what her father, Israel Juárez, told the digital team of Univision 41, on Monday, March 6, his daughter was walking along Northern Blvd in Queens. She had just left school and was heading to the bus stop to return to her house, when she suddenly three young men pounced on her and began to attack her.

“They grabbed her from behind and began to hit her non-stop. She had never seen them. Since there were three of them, she couldn’t defend herself, ”says Juárez.

The Mexican immigrant, who lives in Astoria, goes on to say that the three young men knocked his daughter to the ground, and there they continued to hit her. “She felt like they were never going to stop.”

Gary Menson of News 41 obtained a video from one of the security cameras , where you can see the impulse with which the three suspects they hit the minor and knock her down on the sidewalkbefore starting to hit her.

A woman who was passing by intervened. “She yelled at them to leave the girl alone, and they ran away. She then called the police.”

The girl was able to run to the nearby McDonalds, where she left the floor stained with blood, due to her injuries.

From there he was able to call his parents, and they in turn contacted the police again, who are already on the trail of the suspects.

Menson was able to speak with the minor, who told him that even now, almost a week later, her nose hurts to breathe, that her teeth were loose and that He couldn’t stop shaking.”

Her father assures that the young woman has difficulty sleeping, anxiety and a lot of fear.

Upon learning of the minor’s situation, the New York psychologist Karina Rieke said that it is highly recommended that the victim undergo therapy, due to the traumatic nature of this experience.

The minor is very dejected, because she cannot understand how, without what or for what, three people older than her, whom she had never seen, jumped on her to hit her in a “so ruthless” way, in the words of her father .

Israel Juárez comments that these attacks were very popular some time ago: “They are those challenges on social networks, like when people get out of moving cars and start dancing. In this one, they come, they hit you and they leave. It’s a TikTok fad. I thought it was gone, but it seems to be coming back.”

And that is the reason, he says, why he wants to tell what happened to his daughter: “That other parents find out and, that they tell their children to be attentive in the street, because they don’t know who can approach to hit them”.