4 Teen-Agers Plead Guilty to Racially Inspired Beating
Four teen-agers pleaded guilty Monday in Juvenile Court to their part in a hate-crime attack on a Chinese-American youth and two white friends in Fullerton, the district attorney’s office said.
In a related development, Superior Court Judge Robert B. Hutson ruled that two other teen-agers involved in the unprovoked attack on July 7 in Gilman Partin Park should be tried as adults.
The three victims were surrounded by more than a dozen “skinhead” members of the white supremacist Confederate Federation of America, who grilled them on their racial views and then beat them, police said.
The attackers, clad in black leather jackets and boots, shouted racial slurs and gave Nazi salutes as they began the attack, police said. Gang specialists said the gang is affiliated with the White Aryan Resistance, a national white supremacist group.
The two white victims escaped with minor bruises, but the 17-year-old Chinese-American victim was beaten unconscious.
Two of those subsequently arrested for the attack were part of a skinhead gang who had harassed a black family several hours before in Placentia, police said.
The defendants’ names were not released because of their age.
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