RICHMOND, Calif. — A burglar assaulted the country’s earliest full-time park ranger in her San Francisco Bay Area house today and stole a coin she got from President Obama, authorities stated Thursday.
Betty Reid Soskin, 94, who works as an interpretive ranger at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, was awoken by a trespasser who punched her a number of times in the face, authorities Lt. Felix Tan stated.
She grabbed her cellular phone however he got it from her, dragged her from the bed room and beat her once again, Richmond cops stated. She had the ability to crawl away to the restroom and locked herself inside till the burglar left early Monday.
“I completely anticipated he was going to eliminate me,” Soskin informed Bay Area news station KTVU-TV . “He doubled up his fist and strike me a number of times on the sides of my confront with all his may.”
She called the encounter frightening and stated the blows bruised her face and divided open her lips.
“Nothing else I might think about was to yell and shout and shout,” Soskin informed the TELEVISION station.
Police state the burglar took her cellular phone, iPad, laptop computer, cam, precious jewelry and the coin the president provided her to honor her accomplishments. Soskin presented him at the National Christmas Tree lighting event at the White House last December.
She stated the majority of products she can live without, however the coin is unique to her.
“If I can get that coin back, I believe I can forgive anything,” she informed KTVU.
After a life in civil service, Soskin ended up being a park ranger about 10 years earlier and leads trips at the historic California park and museum honoring the females who operated in factories throughout wartime.
An e-mail sent out to a blog site thought to be hers was not right away returned. Authorities stated she did not wish to talk to press reporters. Park Superintendent Tom Leatherman stated the White House is dealing with a replacement coin.
Before her look at the tree-lighting event, Soskin made headlines in 2013 when she grumbled about a federal government furlough, stating she didn’t have time to lose sitting in the house at her age.
The shutdown started after Republicans required the defunding of the country’s brand-new medical insurance system in exchange for offering important federal financing.
