A woman whose two-year-old son was hit by a manipulator on a Manhattan subway train described Sunday how he called for help during the attack, but “no one did anything.”
The 21-year-old mother, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of the loose attacker, said none of the other full C train straphangers helped her on Saturday when a beggar began punching her. well well .
“No one tried to help me,” he told The Post. “I yelled,‘ Someone help me, grab the baby! “No one did anything to help.”
The incident occurred shortly after 3 p.m. on Frederick Douglas Boulevard and West 116th Street, after the suspect walked between the doors of the wagons and began asking for money from passengers, police and police sources said. law enforcement.
The panhandler a man for $ 20, before passing it on to his mother, who said he had it all in a harness.
“Ma’am, can you say, please, 6 yards away?” the boy’s mother said he asked the woman.
That’s when he “stepped on my foot,” the dismayed woman recalled, “and I pulled her off her foot to protect the baby.”
“He turned around and started punching the baby several times,” the mother said. “He didn’t even hit me.”
The assailant fled when the train arrived at West 116th Street station, “and no one tried to stop her.”
“There were a lot of people” on the train, the distressed woman pointed out. “All the seats were occupied.”
Her baby, who has asthma, suffered minor injuries to her face and ear. He’s so traumatized that “he won’t let me touch him in the face”.
The NYPD on Sunday evening was still looking for the attacker, which sources described as heavy and in his forties, with a tattoo on his neck and a fashionable cut.
“I’ll never forget his face,” the boy’s mother said. “He looked evil.”