A woman whose 2-year-old son was beaten by a pan dealer in a Manhattan subway on Sunday described how she pleaded for help during the attack – but “no one did anything.”
The 21-year-old mother – who asked to remain anonymous for fear of the freeway attacker – said none of the other stangers in the full C-train came to her aid when a female beggar started beating her baby . .
“Nobody tried to help me,” she told The Post. “I shouted, ‘Someone need help, take the baby!’ “Nobody did anything to help. ”
The disturbing incident took place shortly after 3pm at Frederick Douglas Boulevard and West 116th Street, after the suspect walked between train car doors and started asking passengers for money, police and law enforcement said.
The panhandler was a man for $ 20, before moving on to the mother, who said she was holding her rope in a harness.
“Ma’am, can you please say 6 feet further?” the mother of the boy said she asked the woman.
The moment ‘she stepped on my foot’, the upset woman remembers, ‘and I pushed her off my foot to protect the baby.’
“She turned around and punched the baby several times,” the mother said. “She did not even hit me.”
The attacker fled when the train reached West 116 Street Station, “and no one tried to stop her.”
“There were a lot of people” on the train, the grieving woman remarked. “Every seat was occupied.”
Her baby, who has asthma, sustained minor injuries to his face and ear. He is so traumatized that ‘he does not allow me to touch his face’.
The NYPD on Sunday night was still searching for the attacker, who was described by sources as heavy and in her 40s, with a neck tattoo and buzzcut.
“I will never forget her face,” said the boy’s mother. “She looked angry.”