By Tara Kyle
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — The 17-year-old girl accused of running guns for a Harlem street gang got a Rikers Island visit from her mother Friday, the New York Post reported.
Former Deerfield Academy student Afrika Owes got a gift from her mother, Karen, during a jailhouse visit — her SAT test prep book, the Post reported.
"My life is over," Owes, who dreamed of attending a school like Harvard, Yale or Columbia, told the Post during the reunion. "I'm not guilty of these things."
Owes, who withdrew from Deerfield, an Ivy League feeder school, last May while facing disciplinary charges, is accused of running runs for members of the 2 Mafia Family and Goons on Deck street gangs.
District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. announced arrests of 14 youth participating in the crack and cocaine operation on Wednesday.
Karen, who is also raising three other children, told the Post that she hadn't seen the other arrested kids spending time at her W. 138th St. home. But she acknowledged that Afrika might have interacted with the gang members, who worked between Lenox and Seventh Avenues along 137th St., over Facebook or through text massages.
"This could happen to anyone's daughter," she told the Post. "No mother wants her daughter in this situation…parents need to be more savvy."
