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Mom Accused of Raising Pickpocket Kid Has Bizarre Outburst in Court

By DNAinfo Staff on March 25, 2011 3:13pm  | Updated on March 26, 2011 10:33am

Carolyn Taylor was accused of instructing her 11-year-old son to steal and using a stolen credit card.
Carolyn Taylor was accused of instructing her 11-year-old son to steal and using a stolen credit card.
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By Shayna Jacobs

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

MANHATTAN CRIMINAL COURT — A Bronx mom accused of using her 11-year-old son to swipe a wallet from a stroller on the Upper West Side stormed out of the courtroom on Friday in stiletto boots, cursing and yelling at news photographers.

Carolyn Taylor, 35, posted $5,000 bail this week and was making her second appearance in Manhattan Criminal Court on Friday. She was arrested this week and charged with grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and endangering the welfare of a child.

She made a scene in the hallway outside the courtroom, shouting that she couldn't let her son's school see what she was caught up in, and threatening the photographers who were documenting the scene.

"Next time I'm coming back here with a thousand Muslims and kick your ass," she bizarrely said.

"She's just frustrated," said her attorney, Henry Weil. "I think she just meant leave me alone and stay out of my way."

Prosecutors said Thursday that Taylor has not yet been indicted on charges she made her 11-year-old son snatch a purse from an unattended stroller at the Gap store at West 67th Street and Broadway on Jan. 15. Her case will be presented to a grand jury on March 30, prosecutors said.

Taylor also allegedly used a stolen credit card her son was told to swipe at Game Stop (a video game store) and at a deli, according to media reports. Additionally, she reportedly used her son to shoplift from the Always Love drugstore on the Upper West Side. She allegedly used hand signals to tell him what to do. She has not yet been charged in either of those incidents.

Her lawyer, Henry Weil, said her son was currently living with their grandmother. He also said grand larceny charges against the boy had been dropped.

He declined to comment on the charges Taylor faces.