He’s No. 1, all right — Staten Island’s No. 1 problem child.
Pipsqueak punk Osman Daramy was all obnoxious smiles and obscene gestures yesterday as he was hauled into court on hate-crime charges for allegedly assaulting and trying to rip off the religious headdress of a female Muslim classmate.
The 11-year-old Osman — whose own mother is a Muslim — had taunted the 13-year-old girl during one assault, saying, “Aren’t you the Muslim girl we beat up? We’ll beat you up again,” a prosecutor alleged yesterday.
“It was not one incident. It was a continued course of behavior,” Assistant District Attorney Teresa Wilson told a Staten Island Family Court judge a day after Osman’s arrest.
“The defendant is a public-safety risk.”
Two months ago, Osman and a 13-year-old female accomplice punched and kicked the Muslim girl and tried to rip off her hijab outside Dreyfus Intermediate School in Stapleton, prosecutors said.
The verbal harassment of the girl resumed over the past several weeks, most recently Sunday, they said.
Judge Helene Sacco — saying the evidence showed Osman could commit another crime — ordered him held without bail until his next court appearance Tuesday.
He faces up to 18 months in a juvenile facility if convicted of assault and harassment as hate crimes.
Osman’s dad, Frank Davies, sobbed as his scrawny son was brought into court with silver handcuffs around his tiny wrists and later walked out in ankle shackles.
Davies said the boy, who was born in a Sierra Leonean refugee camp and brought to the United States when he was 6 months old, has a Muslim mother.
“How could a Muslim have another hate crime against a Muslim?” he asked.
Davies, 32, called Osman a “victim” who was unnecessarily disciplined by teachers and taunted by fellow students for being “African.” He said he bought the boy an airline ticket to Sierra Leone for April 17 so he could move back.
The boy stood teary-eyed staring at the floor as prosecutors rattled off his disciplinary record.
Defense lawyer Chris Robles said, “My client vehemently denies all allegations.”
Meanwhile, sources said Osman’s at-large accomplice had attended Dreyfus Intermediate School until she was booted two weeks ago.
She and four others allegedly robbed a pizza deliveryman on March 15 on school grounds — the same day she returned from suspension for stealing $70 from a teacher’s pocketbook in November, sources said.
Osman was busted on Feb. 4 for a robbery and has been suspended from Dreyfus Intermediate three times since January.
Dreyfus has the third highest suspension rate in the borough among middle schools, according to the Department of Education.
Additional reporting by Yoav Gonen and Len Maniace