An 11-year-old girl whose head was slashed by a homeless maniac was left “bathed in blood” in the attack but “lucky to be alive,” her mother tells The Post, furious at the career criminal who hurt her. He was put inside the bar where he requested.
“I thought, ‘Oh my God!’ She’s about to die,” Malgorzata Sladek said, remembering her daughter Maxi Park.
“Her lips were blue. She had lost their color.”
“The scars were huge,” the mother of two added.
“Her clothes and jacket were covered in blood. It looked like she had been showered with blood, like you poured red water on her.”
Authorities say the thug, who had a long rap sheet, cut the boy in the back of the head with a knife and cut his ear as he walked down the street holding his mother’s hand.
“I turned around and saw her hair on the sidewalk,” Sladek said. “Her head was cut open from top to bottom. Blood was pouring out of her head. It was a shock.”
The child required multiple stitches to repair the cut and was “feeling a little better” on Saturday, but was still recovering in the hospital, her mother said.
Sources said Cummings, 30, was accused of preying on a girl outside the 116th Street 6 subway station on Friday and then going underground shortly after he was accused of punching an unsuspecting 43-year-old woman around the corner. He is said to have run away.
Mr Sladek tried to chase Mr Cummings and called the conductor to stop the train from leaving, but he managed to escape.
Police eventually tracked him down a block away.
According to the video, the suspect was cornered by a mob of Harlem locals demanding street justice, forcing a group of NYPD officers to protect him.
The footage shows the alleged assailant crouching behind the officer as a man pokes him with a cane.
Cummings, a resident of the Jerome Avenue Men’s Shelter in the Bronx, was awaiting arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court on Saturday on charges of assault and two counts of child endangerment.
He has been arrested more than 20 times on charges including assault, criminal mischief and fare evasion, officials said.
“My daughter could have died. She would no longer be with me,” said Sladek, who also has a 9-year-old son.
“Why is this person walking the streets of New York? They need to change the laws.”
Residents living near the Norwood shelter said its residents were notorious for harassing people, but some considered Cummings to be one of the better-behaved temporary residents.
“They’re all normal one day and acting erratic another day, but I’ve never seen him act erratic,” one Norwood resident said. Told.
“It’s really disgusting to cut a woman, to cut a child. That’s huge. I thought he was one of the best players there.”
“[The shelter residents] harass women. They attack people, especially when they ask for money and they don’t give it,” added another resident.
“I live around here and that’s the worst thing they put there. It’s not safe. They could leave at any time.”
