Mom of strangled teen Corde Scott rails against Bronx judge who cut killer loose
The heartbroken mother of the 15-year-old boy allegedly choked to death by his stepdad railed against the notoriously lenient Bronx judge who cut the accused killer loose, calling the shocking move “heartbreaking.”
Karen Glenn told The Post she couldn’t even watch on Wednesday when soft-on-crime Bronx Criminal Court Judge Naita Semaj released maniac stepdad Tyresse Minter without bail in stepson Corde Scott’s slaying.
“I couldn’t believe what the judge was saying,” Glenn, 35, said Thursday. “I got so upset, I walked out of the courtroom. They weren’t even finished. I saw where they were going.”
Minter, who was paroled in December after serving prison time on a 2018 assault conviction, was suddenly rearrested Thursday after Gov. Kathy Hochul said he 🧔vioღlated his parole.
The grieving mom said that although she was happy about the arrest — she was still confused about why Minter was released in the first place.
“I’m very happy to hear about this. I believe in the Justice system,” she said after hearing the news. “I felt so defeated yesterday.”
The mom continued to question the judge’s decision, as the jurist came under attack by critics for being too soft on crime.
“No bail? I don’t know why the judge released him,” she said. “It was unfortunate to sit there and watch them let him go. Someone who was supposed to protect my son and my son wound up dying in his care. It’s disheartening that they just let him walk.”
Minter, 28, after serving a state prison stint on an assault conviction when he was charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in Scott’s Jan. 23 strangulation.
Minter waited 20 minutes to call 911 after the teenꦺ collapsed an🎃d lost consciousness inside their Bronx apartment, with the boy pronounced dead at the scene.
Bronx prosecutors asked Semaj to order Minter held without bail, but the judge instead released him on his own recognizance — without bail — despite his criminal record and the fact that he is still on parole until September on the earlier assault conviction.
Glenn, who has a five-year-old da🐲ughter with Minter, said she married him 🐎while he was in state prison and after the two had already been living together for three years.
“I knew what he did,” she said of Minter’s earlier robbery and assault convictions. “It was something, you know, outside. You know, he never brought that around the kids. I knew he had the previous robbery but it wasn’t something I was judging him on.
“He told me it was something he did when he was a kid,” she said. “When he came home from prison he and Corde never had an argument. That was the first argument they had. Can you believe it? It’s just ridiculous.”
She said she was still reeling from the judge’s decision to release him early Thursday.
She was reeling from the decision🍬 early Thursday.
“It’s heartbreaking that the judge can ROR [release on recognizance] someone who is involved in a 15-year-old dying,” Glenn said. “I wasn’t there. My son can’t tell me what happened.
“I don’t think that was fair. The [prosecutor] fought very hard for him to be remanded,” she added. “Corde will get the justice he deserved. I still believe in the justice system. I had him when I was just 19. He was my friend as well as being my son.
“My son deserves justice,” Glenn said. “He shouldn’t have died in his house.”
She said she hasn’t spoken to Minter since the fatal fight — and will be testifying against him at his trial.
But Gl𒉰♕enn said she had no idea that Semaj had a history of leniency.
“I had no idea the judge had done this before. That’s why I was so surprised when I heard no bail.”
