Mary Macleod Trump

“ Mary Trump, the 79-year-old mother of developer Donald Trump, was mugged yesterday on a street in Queens, N.Y., and was hospitalized with broken ribs and a bruised face, police said. A 16-year-old youth was arrested and charged with robbery and assault after a witness chased him down, according to police spokesman Lt. Raymond O'Donnell. (Washington Post, November 1, 1991) ” “ The 16-year-old son of a Long Island Rail Road executive has been sentenced to three to nine years in prison for robbing and seriously injuring Mary Trump, the mother of Donald J. Trump, on a street near her Queens home. The sentence, which was imposed Friday on Paul LoCasto, prompted the youth's lawyer to charged that his client had received a harsher punishment than he would have if the victim had not been "high profile." [...] The slender high school student from Fresh Meadows, Queens, whose father is director of the railroad's alcohol-abuse program for employees, told the judge he was sorry. (New York Times, July 26, 1992) ”