WOMAN MUGGED WHILE BREAST FEEDING

A 39-year-old mother was mugged while breast-feeding her infant in a Manhattan park. Around 5:30 p.m. Friday in Fort Tryon Park, Elena Sobina’s 6-month-old daughter, Kelly, had just fallen asleep after nursing when Sobina felt somebody standing behind. She turned her head and the guy grabbed her shoulder. She and the baby were thrown to the ground. She saw that the man had a knife in his right hand. “He didn’t say anything, so I wasn’t sure what he wanted. So I started to scream to him, ‘Please take my money and the bag.’” That’s when the attacker, later identified as Juan Garcia, 31, took her bag and ran away. Sobina put the baby back in her stroller and ran in the same direction, stopping to tell her tale to a good Samaritan who called 911. Police were able to find Garcia by tracking Sobina’s iPhone. Sobina said she likes the neighborhood because of the very park where she was mugged. “I’m trying not to breast-feed outside anymore,” said Sobina, whose husband asked if she wanted to move away. “His other idea was to get a dog.”
* This is America – another option is concealed carry.
* Juan Garcia? Don’t tell Trump!
* Six months is a little young to find out what the world’s really like, but I guess this could be a teaching moment.
* “I’m trying not to breast-feed outside anymore.” That’s not the problem. Try not taking your purse and your money when you breast-feed outside.
* I mean, you’re breast-feeding in a park, not out on a shopping trip, right?
* Then it wouldn’t be “Please take my money and the bag,” it would be “I’m sorry, I don’t have any valuables with me. Would you like some of my nipple shields?”
* I just hope the bag the mugger took was full of dirty diapers.
* I suppose the message here is, “Boy, there are some circumstances where muggers should just leave people alone!” but I’m not sure how we get the muggers on board with this.
* By Manhattan standards this actually turned into a happy story.