‘Why me?’ train slash victim asks

A YOUNG MOTHER slashed in the face by a homeless woman on a Manhattan subway has just one question for her attacker: “Why me?”

Anna Martinez, 31, was pushing her 18-month-old son in a stroller on a downtown No. 5 train Sunday when another passenger lashed out and cut her across her face, opening a 5-inch gash from the top of her forehead to the top of her left cheek.

Martinez (photo bottom) said she got on the subway at the E. 125th St. stop, and that suspect Jacqueline Sanjurjo went through the gate behind her. Sanjurjo followed her on the elevator down to the subway platform and sat across from her on the train, Martinez said.

When the conductor announced that Grand Central-42nd St. was the last stop, Martinez got up and pushed the stroller to the doors. She said Sanjurjo stood behind her.

“As soon as I saw the door open, that’s when I just seen her arm go down my face,” Martinez told the Daily News of the 11 a.m. attack. “I grabbed her hand and just started screaming. She was also pulling my hair with her other hand.”

Martinez said another passenger pulled the attacker off her.

“That’s when I seen just the blood coming down and a lady said, ‘You’re cut,’ ” Martinez said.

“I didn’t know I was cut, I didn’t feel anything. I just felt like I was being attacked.”

Cops arrested Sanjurjo, 53, of the Bronx. She was charged with two counts of assault, criminal possession of a weapon and acting in a manner injurious to a child, officials said.

A relative of the suspect said she struggles with drugs and mental illness.

Martinez, who said she has not even looked in the mirror yet, said she remains baffled by the attack.

“This whole time I’m thinking, ‘Why?’ This is my question to her: ‘Why me? Why did you cut me?’

“Did she not see I was with my son? I feel unsafe; I don’t even want to take the train anymore.”