A 2-year-old boy was hit in front of a violent manipulator in a Manhattan subway train – just the latest in a recent increase in violence in city transit, police and police sources said on Sunday.
The child was sitting on his mother’s lap on a northbound C-train on Douglas Boulevard and West 116th Street in Manhattan shortly after 3 p.m. on Saturday, when a beggar woman walked between the doors of the car and began asking passengers for money. , according to police and sources.
“Can you say, please, 6 meters away?” The boy’s mother asked the manipulator, sources told The Post.
The suspect continued to step on his mother’s left leg, sources said.
When her mother asked her, “Why did you step on me?” the suspect began punching, hitting the 2-year-old, sources said.
A witness told police he had to remove the suspect’s mother and child – who suffered minor visible injuries to his face and ear, sources said.
The attacker, described as 40 years old, fled the train when he arrived at the station, police said.
The injured child was taken to Mount Sinai-St. Luke’s Hospital by ambulance for treatment, police sources said. He has since been released, sources said.
The suspect was described as a strong woman with a tattoo on her neck and buzzcut, who was last seen wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, washed jeans, boots and a white mask, sources said.
The incident was just one of a number of recent train-related offenses, including a horrific random burglary on line A earlier this month that left two people dead and two others injured.