I Was Robbed While Visiting My Mom's Grave, Woman Testifies

The case of an Easton man accused of assaulting and robbing a disabled woman and her son in the city cemetery last month is headed to county court.

Anthony Giamoni, 29, was charged July 5 with robbery, theft and simple assault.

In court on Tuesday, the woman and her son described the attack.

The woman testified that she and her son had been at the cemetery that day for a vigil with friends. When that ended, she said, she and her son stopped to visit her mother's grave. 

That's when Giamoni allegedly attacked her, punching and kicking the woman and pushing her son to the ground.

He got away with $600, which the woman said she'd gotten from the bank to pay her rent and to buy her son new shoes.

Giamoni punched the woman in the head, she testified, causing the grand mal seizures she'd suffered from to return. She also suffered two fractured ribs.

"It hurt to breathe," she testified. "Just pure pain."

Defense attorney Dwight Danser called the son to testify, and argued that prosecutors had failed to make their case for simple assault on the boy.

But Senior District Judge Elizabeth Romig-Gainer ruled there was enough evidence for the case to move forward. Giamoni remains in Northampton County Prison.