Cops release photo of female accused of kicking pregnant woman in stomach, striking her head multiple times in NYC subway



New York City police are on the hunt for a female accused of kicking a pregnant woman in the stomach and striking her in the head multiple times with a cell phone following a Wednesday morning subway ride in Queens.

What are the details?

Cops said the victim — a 25-year-old woman — was riding a southbound 7 train approaching the 74th Street-Broadway station in Jackson Heights around 9 a.m. when the female suspect bumped into her, WNYW-TV reported.

When the suspect and victim got off the train, they began to argue, and the suspect allegedly struck the victim multiple times in the head with her cell phone before kicking the victim in the stomach, the station said.

The suspect fled the scene on foot, WNYW said.

Police said the victim suffered swelling and bruising to the face and stomach pain and was taken to a hospital with minor injuries, the station said.

The victim and her baby are expected to be OK, police added to WPIX-TV.

Police released a photo of the accused attacker, Patch noted:

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Police said those with information regarding this incident can call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782), WNYW reported, adding that tips can be submitted on the Crime Stoppers website or on Twitter @NYPDTips. The station said all calls are strictly confidential.

How are folks reacting?

As you might guess, observers are hoping the attacker is found and prosecuted. Here's what some of them had to say in comments underneath the WNYW story published by Yahoo News:

  • "She should get double charges ... for the victim and the unborn," one commenter wrote.
  • "She deserves some really bad karma if she damaged that baby," another commenter said.
  • "If that baby is considered alive in that state, that needs to be treated as though it is an attempted murder," another commenter declared.
  • "Amazing that we live in a society that thinks behaving like animals is justified," another commenter noted. "Striking other human beings, especially a pregnant one, is beyond the pale."

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Taliban reportedly kicks pregnant American in stomach as she tries to evacuate Kabul. She is still trapped there and in hiding.



Taliban militants kicked a pregnant American in the stomach as she tried to evacuate Kabul, Afghanistan, with her husband and father — and she's still trapped there and in hiding, Fox News reported.

'Kicked in the stomach'

Fox News' Ainsley Earhardt on Tuesday spoke to Republican U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa of California about the pregnant woman he called "Nasria," who never made it aboard an aircraft and out of danger.

"She was kicked in the stomach, but she was kicked in the stomach well after — as she got through the first checkpoint where she remained for hours, waiting for those people at the south point to supposedly come out and get her," Issa told the cable network. "It wasn't until it was clear they'd closed, [that] they weren't taking anyone else for quite a while, that finally she accepted that she was going to have to go back and hide in her apartment."

The congressman also told Fox News that "Nasria" made "multiple trips" to the airport before U.S. forces departed.

Issa added to Earhardt that about three hours prior to their interview his team had been attempting to arrange a "possible alternative" way out of the country but that a "third party" would be involved and that it was nixed for being "too dangerous."

"We've agreed that she's going to stay sheltered in place, hiding her identity and hoping that her friends will continue to bring her food and keep her secret until frankly we can come up with something new," he also told Fox News, adding that "we know her exact location but literally are afraid to even have a conversation about a rendezvous until we know where and when somebody could meet her."

Earhardt asked Issa if that fear was due to others possibly listening to phone calls, and he replied affirmatively.

"The Russians have already come in, as have the Chinese. Once you control a phone system — the ability to find out where every cell is and who owns it — they have that data now," the congressman told Fox News. "So anyone who wants to remain unknown has to switch phones, turn them off, use all the techniques that you would use if you were in survival, escape, and evasion."

He added that while the Taliban's intentions aren't known, it helps to remember that "the president made an agreement and kept an agreement with a terrorist group that was responsible for harboring those who [attacked] us on 9/11, and then didn't keep his promise to the American people."

Issa also offered the grim reality that after U.S. diplomats moved to Qatar, "there's no longer any diplomatic mission in Kabul. So the idea that either military or diplomatic is going to work is hoping that a terrorist group — still with relations with other terrorist groups — somehow is going to help us get Americans out."

'These people were stranded'

The congressman also declared that "anyone" who says U.S. leaders "didn't break a promise to the American people and [left] people behind is wrong. Anyone who says that there aren't people stranded is wrong. These people were stranded; they did everything they were supposed to do, and they simply were not a priority at the end."