Bail Reform Leads to Attack on 4-year-old

He is such a big tough man to sucker-punch a 4-year-old kid. Mom of 4-year-old NYC punch victim became a 'mama bear'

Read the story for the details. It is every bit as screwed up as that headline makes it sound.

Police charged Babacar Mbaye, 34, a repeat offender with 51 arrests, in the attack with assault, endangering the welfare of a child and resisting arrest.

As for the bail reform.

Mbaye had three recent prior arrests for assault including a Feb. 3. charge for allegedly punching a woman in the head on the subway. He was released without bail on a desk appearance ticket for that incident, said his lawyer, Thomas Kenniff.

He was given supervised release for a Jan. 20 charge when he was accused of punching and kicking a woman in the stomach. He was then released without bail after an August arrest for kicking a woman.

He has bail, for now anyway. $30,000.

The mother, Carmen Rivera, wants to know why he wasn't locked up. That is because keeping violent offenders in jail is unfair.

Angel's father, Federico, had this to say.

“It’s a different New York now – forget it. The crime is out of this world,” he said. “There is no police presence like it used to be.”

So is he a violent criminal, or mentally ill? Either way society should be protected from him. But that would be unfair. Or something.