(CBS NY) – Police are trying to identify an individual after a 2-year-old child was assaulted on the subway. The incident happened around 3 p.m. Saturday on a northbound C train entering the 116th Street subway station.
Police say an unidentified individual struck a 2-year-old boy in the face multiple times, then ran off. Surveillance photos show the individual leaving the station. The child’s mother told CBS2 the individual was panhandling and asked the man sitting next to them for money, and the mother asked the individual to stay six feet away.
The mother says the individual walked away, but then stepped on the mother’s foot, turned around, and mumbled something. That’s when the mother says the individual started punching her 2-year-old child, who was asleep in his mother’s arms, repeatedly.
“And I was just asking people, ‘Can you all please get my baby! Please get him!’ she explained. “And nobody tried to stop. They were just standing there.” Police arrived too late. The attacker ran off. The toddler was rushed to the hospital and released, but the trauma has set in. READ MORE
