*Authorities have filed charges against seven children involved in a November assault on a Chicago mother and her son that gained widespread attention online.
According to NBC Chicago, the group includes three 10-year-old boys, one 10-year-old girl, an 11-year-old girl, a 12-year-old boy, and a 13-year-old girl. Each faces one or more misdemeanor counts of battery causing bodily harm. Officials continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the event. The charges stem from an incident that left the victims hospitalized initially in serious condition.
The attack targeted 33-year-old Corshawnda Hatter and her nine-year-old son as they walked home from Orville Bright Elementary School in the South Deering neighborhood. Video footage captured the group confronting, following, and repeatedly striking the family. Community members gathered outside the school the following day to demand accountability…