An 87-year-old woman in Maine is speaking out about how she had to fight off a teenage intruder who broke into her house last month. After the attack the woman reportedly fed the teen peanut butter and crackers because the intruder was complaining that he was “awfully hungry.”
Majorie Perkins has lived at her house in Brunswick, Maine for over 40 years and never had any issues, but one night she says she was sleeping in her bed and woke up to a teenager standing over top of her after he had broken into the house. “He said I’m going to cut you,” Perkins told a local news station. “I thought to myself, If he’s going to cut, I’m going to kick, so I jumped into my shoes.” The woman was home alone at the time of the attack and once they started fighting she says the intruder was hitting her and shoving her against the wall so she grabbed a chair that nearby so she could defend herself.
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“That helped,” Perkins said. “I was hollering for help out the window. … Thank God I had the chair between us. It would’ve been worse.”
Perkins the teen kept hitting her until eventually stopped and just randomly walked into her kitchen so she begged for the teen to leave her house, but he refused as he continued to look through her kitchen.
“I kept saying, ‘You need to get out. You need help,’” she told the newspaper. “He said he was awfully hungry and hadn’t had anything to eat for quite a while. And I said, ‘Well, here’s a box of peanut butter and honey crackers. You can have that whole box.’ I gave him two containers of Ensure and I gave him two tangerines.” Perkins then called 911 as the teen ate.
Once Brunswick Police Department arrived at the scene they noticed the teen did have a knife on him but he left it inside the kitchen while the two were fighting. Police ultimately tracked the teenager down “a few blocks away” from Perkins’ house and took him into juvenile custody. The teenager was charged with burglary, criminal threatening, assault and consuming alcohol as a minor. His name has not been released since he is a juvenile.
One of the more crazy details about this story is that the boy who broke into her house used to cut her grass 10 years ago. After sharing the shocking story Perkins just said: “I hope he gets help.”