NEW YORK - A syndicated hip-hop disc jockey arrested after making on-air racial and sexual rants about a rival radio personality's wife and young child has been released on bail.
DJ Star, whose real name is Troi Torain, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child after a broadcast on Power 105.1 FM.
Transcripts show he hurled racist insults, threatened to sexually abuse the 4-year-old daughter of his rival, Hot 97's DJ Envy, and offered $500 for information about where she went to school.
"I will come for your kids," Torain said, according to a transcript provided by New York Councilman John C. Liu.
Torain was arraigned after 11 p.m. Friday and posted $2,000 bail within an hour, authorities said.
Police originally had indicated he also would be charged with harassment, but prosecutors decided against it for now, district attorney's spokeswoman Barbara Thompson said.
Torain's lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said his client's conduct was inappropriate but not criminal, and was "never intended to frighten the family."
Torain — along with his brother Timothy Joseph, known as Buc Wild — was the host of Clear Channel Radio's syndicated morning show on Power 105. The company fired Torain after city officials complained. Their show aired in markets including Philadelphia, Miami and Richmond, Va.
Now, I'm sure this waste of human flesh is going to tell the press that he was "just kidding," and that people shouldn't take his comments seriously. I would secretly giggle if somebody took a baseball bat to this guy's head. You don't talk about children like that, period.
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