‘Help! Help! My baby! My baby!’

Dad chokes susp in kid booze buy

An angry father on Tuesday morning throttled a Queens man accused of giving booze to the burly assailant’s teenage son, police said.

Patrick Molfetto, 46, confronted Matthew Chase, 37, about 8:35 a.m., just moments after Chase left his home on Crescent St. in Long Island City, cops said.

The city sanitation worker, who was off-duty at the time, grabbed Chase around the neck to choke him, bruising his neck, police said.

“You motherf——r!” witness Jose Rojas, 45, heard the 220pound Molfetto scream. “He grabbed him around the neck and slammed him.”

Chase, who is substantially smaller than Molfetto, was treated at a hospital and released.

Afterward, Chase defended his actions, telling the Daily News he first came in contact with Molfetto’s 15-year-old son on social media, then met him a number of times because he thought the youngster was 18, and because he wanted to be “a support person — a friend.”

Chase said he also met the teen’s family, including the father, whom he described as “physically and emotionally abusive.”

“It was just a friendship,” Chase insisted to The News. “And his family knows it. I have a big heart, and I was trying to help his son.”

Chase said Molfetto and a second man confronted him, though the NYPD lists only one attacker on its report.

“I’m afraid for my safety,” Chase said. “Had I known [the son] was that age I would never have been involved.”

Molfetto was charged with criminal obstruction of breathing, assault and harassment. A Sanitation Department employee since 2004, he may face disciplinary action aside from the criminal case, a spokesman for the agency said.

For his part, Chase was arrested Sept. 8 in Holbrook, L.I., the Suffolk County hamlet where the teen lives with his family, and was charged with acting in a manner injurious to a child less than 17.

“I got roped into a situation with him and his friends by providing them with alcohol,” he told The News. “Now, I’m afraid for my safety.”