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Breastfeeding mum’s fury at passengers who made her sit on filthy train floor
THIS is the moment a young mother was forced to breastfeed her son sitting on a ‘filthy’ train floor because passengers would not give up their seats.
Sophie Molineux, 22, was photographed by her partner as she fed their one-year-old son Chester hemmed in between the train door and her pushchair.
She and Rob Moore, 25, a chef, had to stand for their half-hour trip and were astonished when none of their ‘inconsiderate’ fellow travellers offered a seat.
They took turns to hold Chester and, when he became hungry, Miss Molineux said she had no
‘Out of 50 people, not one moved’
choice but to sit on the floor. ‘I was so shocked,’ she said. ‘There were around 50 people in the carriage and not one moved, even those in the priority seats meant for passengers who need to sit.’
Some even went to the toilet and back giving her ‘blank expressions so they didn’t have to give up their seat’.
She added: ‘I’d rather not sit on the dirty floor of a moving train breastfeeding but I didn’t really have much choice.’
The incident came as the family travelled from their home in Shrewsbury to Ludlow, Shropshire, for a day out on Tuesday.
As neither drive, they went by train and boarded the carriage near the priority seating area. ‘We didn’t ask anyone to give up their seat. We thought we’d just stand and hope for the best but no one got up,’ said Miss Molineux, who has a part-time job as a restaurant manager. ‘I don’t know how these people could see what was going on and pretend it wasn’t happening.’
Miss Molineux said she was speaking out in the hope other fit and healthy passengers would be less selfish in future. ‘It should be common sense to give up your seat for a child,’ she said.