Teenagers Face Charges After Allegedly Thrashing a Mentally Disabled Man

A group of teenagers between the ages of 12 and 14 are accused of assaulting a man with a mental disability and robbing him. Authorities have charged the teenagers.

According to authorities, the incident occurred on April 5 in Wharton, Texas.

The victim has been identified as Daniel Norman William, who told KTRK that he was riding his bike that evening when a group of boys attacked him and started throwing things at him.

“The dudes were just chucking bottles at me and rocks and stuff,” Williams said. “I do nothing to them. I said nothing to them,” Williams added.

The teenagers approached him and knocked him to the ground before repeatedly kicking and punching him while one of the assailants recorded the assault on his cell phone.

“They kicked him all in his head and all in his gut, all of that. They literally took the bottom half of his pants down and ripped them apart,” said Diondre Brown, who has served as Williams's caregiver for nearly 15 years.

The footage of the incident was sent to local law enforcement 4 days after the incident. Soon after receiving footage of the incident, the police took swift action and arrested all six suspects.

The authorities have confirmed that all six attackers were teenagers between the ages of 12 and 14 years, and since all are minors, the authorities have not publicly released their identities. Two of the suspects were released to their parents, while the other four were kept in custody at the juvenile detention centre.

The teenagers are being charged with multiple felonies, including aggravated robbery and organized criminal activities. “They took his bike. They took his shoes,” Brown said. “They treated him like trash,” Brown added.

In a similar incident that happened in Washington, D.C., five teenage girls were all convicted of brutally stomping a 64-year-old man to death in 2023. The incident was caught on cellphone video. All five girls who were convicted were teenagers between the ages of 12 and 15.

One of the girls, who was 14 years old at the time, was sentenced to serve a seven-year term at a restricted facility. It was noted that the teen delivered some of the most vicious blows that ultimately led to the death of the 64-year-old man.