Miya Ponsetto, 22, said on CBS This Morning.
The interview was conducted Thursday, hours before Ponsetto was arrested in California in connection with the Dec.
26 confrontation with 14-year-old Keyon Harrold Jr., the AP reports.
Ponsetto was charged Saturday in New York with attempted robbery, grand larceny, acting in a manner injurious to a child and two counts of attempted assault, city police reported.
Ponsetto said she was "sorry from the bottom of my heart" but added: "He’s 14?