A South Deering family has been relocated to a new home after the mother and her 9-year-old son were attacked on the Far South Side Monday afternoon.

Chicago police on Monday said a group of attackers confronted and hit 33-year-old Corshawnda Hatter and her son multiple times as they were walking in the 10600 block of South Bensley Avenue, near Orville Bright Elementary School. The attack sent the two to the hospital in serious condition.

After the attack, Hatter set up an online fundraiser for relocation expenses. As of Thursday afternoon, the family has raised more than $17,000 on GoFundMe.

“As a mother, my number one responsibility is to protect my babies,” Hatter wrote in the GoFundMe description. “After everything that happened, and how unsafe the environment around us has become,

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