A 12-year-old boy who was alone in his Long Island home was forced into a bathroom by a trio of push-in robbers, who duct-taped his face and tied him up before looting the place, cops said yesterday.
The three men pushed the boy, identified by neighbors as Kevin Zhang, into the upscale Massapequa, LI, house at 7 p.m. Friday as his parents were at work at their Japanese restaurant.
“He thought it was his dad at the door,” the boy’s mom, Maggie, 36, said yesterday.
“They tied him up and started asking, “Where’s your money?” He gave them what they wanted, he did everything right.”
The three men escaped with $200 and jewelry after ransacking the Hawthorne Street home for 20 minutes, said Zhang.
Kevin, who was tied with rope and had duct tape stuck over his eyes, struggled free and called cops. He was not hurt, they said.
Cops said the three attackers were Asian and may have known their victims. Zhang said her son heard one of them speak in the Jujianese dialect, which comes from the same region of China that she emigrated from 20 years ago.
“I am very scared,” she said. “Maybe it’s someone I know?”