A woman whose 2-year-old son was beaten by a beggar on a Manhattan subway described on Sunday pleading for help during the attack – but “no one did anything.”
The 21-year-old mother – who asked to remain anonymous for fear of the stray assailant – said none of the other strap hangers on the packed C train came to her rescue on Saturday when a female beggar started beating her baby.
“Nobody tried to help me,” she told The Post. “I cried, ‘Someone help me, have the baby!’ Nobody did anything to help. ”
The poignant incident took place shortly after 3 p.m. on Frederick Douglas Boulevard and West 116th Street, after the suspect walked between the doors of the train car and began asking passengers for money, police and law enforcement sources said.
The beggar a man for $ 20, before going to the mother, who said she was holding her toddler in a harness.
“Ma’am, can you say 6 feet away please?” The boy’s mother said she asked the woman.
That’s when “she stepped on my foot,” the distraught woman recalled, “and I pushed her off my foot to protect the baby.”
“She turned and started beating the baby several times,” the mother said. “She didn’t even hit me.”
The aggressor fled when the train reached West 116th Street station, “and no one tried to stop her.”
“There were many people” on the train, noted the sad woman. “Every seat was taken.”
Her baby, who has asthma, suffered minor injuries to his face and ear. He is so traumatized that “I am not allowed to touch him by the face”.
The NYPD was still looking for the attacker on Sunday night, who was described by sources as heavily built and in his forties, with a neck tattoo and buzzcut.
“I’ll never forget her face,” said the boy’s mother. “She looked bad.”