The mom of an accused teen iPhone thief has a message for the Brooklyn woman who chased her son down and held him in a bear hug for cops: Good for you!
“If it was my phone, I would have chased his ass, too!” said the mom, whose 13-year-old boy was collared by his mugging victim Friday in Williamsburg.
“She did whatever she felt was necessary,” the mother added. “She thought she was in good shape to do it, so good for her.”
The mom, whose name is being withheld because her son is a juvenile, said the kid has been grounded for “I don’t know how long.”
“He’s paying the consequences for what he did,” she said.
The teen and two pals allegedly targeted Clara Vondrich at 1:20 p.m. Friday as she made a business call near a coffee shop on South Third Street.
The boy allegedly pushed the 36-year-old woman, ripped her iPhone from her hand and sprinted off, sources said.
Vondrich raced after them, despite wearing thick wedge heels. She grabbed the 13-year-old, and the other two got away.
She then held the boy for about two minutes until cops arrived and charged him with felony robbery as a juvenile.
Asked if Vondrich was in any danger as she chased the boy, his mom said, “Not by chasing him.
“He’s only a little kid,” she added, speaking through her door in the Independence Towers in Williamsburg. “He knew he wasn’t going to get away anyway.
“When the lady grabbed him, he easily could have broken out of it and kept on running. But he gave himself up because he knew he was probably going to get in trouble,” she said. “Nobody told him to do it. He don’t do stuff like that. I don’t know why he did it.”
She said the teen’s father does not live with them but is in touch with the boy.
She repeated that she, too, would have run her son down.
“If I was in good shape, I would have chased him,” she said. “But in the shape I’m in, I’m not gonna chase nobody for no damn phone.”