An enraged daughter railed in a Manhattan court Tuesday against the crack-addled thug who snatched her 93-year-old mother’s purse and shoved her down a flight of stairs, saying he stole her mom’s “spirit.”
“He grabbed my mother’s purse and my purse and he yanked so hard that he pulled my mother down a flight of stairs and he dragged me like a sack of potatoes,” seethed Linda Reynolds at the Manhattan Supreme Court sentencing of thief Richard Davidson.
“He took the spunk and the spirit away from my mother. I don’t know how long she has to live but I resent him.”
Justice Gregory Carro sentenced the crook to 10 years in state prison followed by 10 years probation for the shocking Aug. 20 robbery.
Reynolds and her mother, Marjorie Ramondetta, who has five grandchildren and two great grandchildren, visited the Washington Heights building where the mom once lived to see how the neighborhood had changed over the past 73 years.
Davidson, 26, struck up a conversation with the pair, claiming to live in Ramondetta’s former second-floor apartment.
As they followed him upstairs to have a look around, he grabbed their pocketbooks and shoved them.
“He thinks he went through hard times. My mother lived through the Depression in that building where men used to knock on everybody’s door asking if they had leftover food,” she said before turning to look at the 25-year-old brute directly.
“While you’re in jail get the help that you need so you don’t hurt other people.”
Davidson, who only briefly glanced at Reynolds during her fiery tirade, said he was remorseful.
“I just want to apologize for everything I did. I wasn’t sober and I hope I learned my lesson,” he said.
The career criminal, who claimed he hadn’t slept in seven days before the attack because he was so high on crack, had robbed four victims that day, according to court documents.
He has 21 prior arrests dating back to 2008.