A second teen-ager charged with attacking a man in Northside will face charges as an adult, a juvenile court judge ordered Thursday.

        Kevin Carroll, 16, of Northside, is charged with felonious assault for his alleged part in the November assault of Theodore Jenkins, 43.

        On Wednesday, 15-year-old Joshua Yaden, of Northside, was sent to adult court for his alleged part in the attack.

        Both appeared before Hamilton County Juvenile Court Judge Sylvia Hendon.

        Mr. Jenkins, who is black, was walking home from his Camp Washington job shortly before 2:30 a.m. Nov. 24 when he was attacked by four white males and one white female. They hit him in the head and stabbed him four times while shouting racial slurs.

        On Thursday, Mr. Carroll's attorney, Herbert Haas, told the judge that sending his client to adult court would be unfair because charges more serious than these are heard in juvenile court.

        The judge said Mr. Haas was comparing “apples to oranges.”

        Prosecutors argued that adult court is appropriate because Mr. Carroll has been accused of causing trouble while in juvenile detention and had an altercation with other juveniles and adult staff.

        Prosecutors said that five days before the assault on Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Carroll had been found guilty of misdemeanor assault in a separate attack on another man.

        According to statements made in court, Mr. Carroll has an eighth-grade education.

        He left school in May, he told the judge, and has worked full-time installing carpet.

        Charges were dismissed in the case against a third teen-ager. Two adults, Christina Noel, 22, of Groesbeck, and Calvin Cooper, 21, of Northside, will return to court Jan. 14 before Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Ann Marie Tracey.

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