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Shopping cart victim says she wishes boys who injured her ‘well’

A Manhattan charity worker who was nearly killed by a shopping cart pushed over a garage railing by teenage punks in October spoke publicly for the first time today — expressing compassion for the pranksters who dropped the cart on her head.

Marion Hedges, during a walk outside her Upper East Side apartment, said she hasn’t received an apology from the evil-doers.

“I haven’t heard from them, but I wish them well,” Hedges said. “I do, because I feel very sorry for them.”

“I don’t know that my son would do something like that or that his friends would do something like that. But there were a lot of things in their lives to bring them to that. A shopping mall is not a place for kids to hang out.”

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Hedges was standing under a ramp at an East Harlem parking lot when the shopping cart, pushed by the pair of teens 50 feet above her, came crashing down on her head.

After days in an induced coma, she has made a slow and painful recovery

“I don’t have eyesight out of my left eye,” Hedges said. “It’s a work in progress.”

Although she walked unassisted, and spoke in a strong voice, relatives said she still has a long way to go.

“She is making slow but steady progress,” said Hedges’ father, Alec Salmon. “She gets tired very, very easily.”

A surveillance video exclusively obtained by the Post showed the gruesome moment of impact.

It also showed the desperation of 14-year-old Achilles Baskin of Harlem as he tried to stop his friends from dropping the cart.

Baskin told The Post that he needed psychological help to deal with the incident and that neighborhood punks have been hassling him for turning in his two friends.