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Surveillance video shows 51-year-old Robert Barnes being pummeled by teens with a hammer, a piece of wood and punches, after police say a 10-year-old boy told his mother he got into an argument with Barnes.

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A LAWYER for one of the women accused of savagely beating a homeless man at an Olney gas station earlier this month - a beating caught on video - told a judge yesterday that his client participated in the attack, but deserves to be let out on bail.

Attorney Max Kramer said Aleathea Gillard, 34, is a single mother of eight kids, works as a home health aide and had never before been arrested.

Gillard waived her preliminary hearing in Family Court in the April 7 attack on Robert Barnes, 51, at the Sunoco gas station on 5th Street near Somerville Avenue.



She was being held without bail, but Kramer argued before Common Pleas Judge James Murray Lynn that Gillard is not a flight risk and that bail should be set. The judge set bail at $150,000.

Kramer, who requested bail of $50,000, said afterward that he did not know whether Gillard's family could post 10 percent of $150,000.

The victim's family has said Barnes was put into a medically induced coma at Einstein Medical Center and suffered catastrophic brain injuries.

Assistant District Attorney Danielle Bunting argued for a bail of $1 million or $2 million.

"What this defendant did was street justice," she said of Gillard.

The prosecutor said Barnes' life "is in the balance" right now, and the victim is on a ventilator. "Right now, if the plug is pulled, we would be dealing" with a murder case, she said.

Kramer told the judge that Gillard gave a statement to detectives "admitting her involvement in the attack." He said she mistakenly believed at the time of the attack that Barnes had injured her 10-year-old son. She later learned her son had lied, the lawyer said.

Gillard's son and Barnes were both earning money pumping gas at the Sunoco station when they got into an argument and started to throw something back and forth at one another, Kramer said.

Kramer said the boy then rode his bike home, fell and hurt himself on the forehead, but claimed to his mother that the man they knew as "Bob" caused the injury.

Gillard, who lives about 1 1/2 blocks from the gas station, then got into her Honda Odyssey minivan with other people who were in her home at the time and returned to the gas station, Kramer said. When Gillard asked Barnes what happened, "his response was 'F--- you,' " Kramer said.

That's when "she got out and assaulted him," the lawyer said.

He said Gillard hit Barnes with a piece of wood from a broken rocking chair in her minivan.

Bunting, the prosecutor, said Gillard beat Barnes in the head with the piece of wood. She said two of Gillard's kids - a 12-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son - were "involved with stomping this man [Barnes] while he was on the ground."

Two other women were also allegedly involved in the attack - Shareena Joachim, 24, who allegedly brought Mace to the attack, and Kaisha Duggins, 23, who allegedly hit Barnes with a hammer in the head, legs and feet.

Joachim's preliminary hearing was rescheduled from yesterday to May 22; Duggins' is scheduled for May 4.

Gillard's 12-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son, and a 14-year-old boy who was also allegedly involved, were all charged as juveniles and face preliminary hearings May 5.

All six defendants have been charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, conspiracy and related offenses.

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