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Wedged between Westbrook Mall, a golf course and a new trio of shining glass condominium towers, Shaganappi Village is a modest collection of public-housing townhouses with a yellow mid-rise building.

The complex has a sizeable number of East African immigrants, including refugees from South Sudan. On a weekday morning, a dozen young children roam around the complex on bikes and scooters.

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And that can lead to a problem, says Jen Deamer, who’s among a handful of residents who claim they’ve been “targeted” by swarms of children hurling rocks and insults.

“There’s 20 kids outside with no supervision. They’re up at 3 a.m. coming up to my house,” said Deamer, pointing at holes in her window and exterior siding that she claims were inflicted by an air gun in 2013.

She claims she’s has rocks thrown at her townhouse since she arrived in March 2012. And with scores of children wandering the complex each week, it’s impossible to report any of them by name.