MANILA, Philippines — The daughter of the 65-year-old Filipino-American recently attacked in New York bared that someone had actually stepped in to distract her mother’s attacker.
In a recent post on a fundraising site, victim Vilma Kari’s daughter, Elizabeth, expressed gratitude to a bystander who she said “yelled and screamed to get the assailant’s attention.” This, however, was not caught on the security camera footage that has gone viral, according to Elizabeth.
“The security video that has gone viral has been the most difficult thing to watch, apart from the crime itself. There were many times that I wish someone would have stepped in. However, what t…
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