Boy, 11, sent to residence program for beating Philly man
The boy facing Family Court Judge Kevin Dougherty seemed younger than 11, standing quietly beside his lawyer and wearing a too-large sweatshirt that was baggy on his slight frame.
But the boy's actions in March - ambushing 72-year-old Southwest Philadelphia resident Vincent Poppa with a group of friends, then beating him into unconsciousness as part of a now-notorious "catch-and-wreck" attack - left Dougherty unsympathetic to the child's age. On Friday, Dougherty ordered the boy sent to St. Gabriel's Hall, a residence program in Audubon, Montgomery County, for juvenile delinquents, for an undetermined length of time.
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