HOME-ALONE SCARE

Harlem girl on mend after mom-gone plunge

The Harlem girl critically injured when she tumbled out a sixth-floor window is expected to survive, her mom said Tuesday — as it surfaced that the child was home alone and warned to stay away from the air conditioner minutes before the fall, police sources said.

“By the grace of God, she’s alive,” said Iesha Punter, whose 9year-old daughter, Kianna, is on the mend in Harlem Hospital Center after the fall.

“I’m just gonna keep praying. She’s pulling through,” the distraught mom added to The Post by phone before hanging up.

Iesha was out of the house but had called Kianna to tell her to keep her distance from the family’s window-mounted air conditioner in their West 129th Street apartment in the St. Nicholas Houses around 5:30 p.m., according to police sources.

It’s not clear where the mom was or why she had allegedly warned the child.

But just moments later, the air conditioner and then Kianna plummeted from the sixth-floor window, according to cops.

Kianna landed with a crash on the roof of a ground-floor childcare center, which broke her fall, witnesses said.

The little girl lay on the landing amid the shards of the air conditioner until first responders rushed her to the hospital, miraculously still “conscious and alert.”

“She was screaming, ‘Help me!’ when she landed,” Latifa Shakour, 27, who lives one building over, had told The Post.

Neighbor Tete Brown, who recalled seeing Kianna walk past her and wave hello just minutes earlier on her way into the building, said, “I heard it and ran over. She fell on her back.

“[Kianna and her siblings] are never in the house alone,” insisted Brown, who speculated that Iesha was “right around the corner” picking up her other children from school and was “in denial” when she came home to the nightmare scene.

The Punters’ next-door neighbor, Darren Turner, 53, was also shocked when he heard about the accident.

“She’s a responsible little girl,” said Turner. “I couldn’t believe it.

“As long as the little girl [lives], that’s all that matters,” he added, describing Iesha as “hardworking.”

The little girl told cops she has no idea how she fell, according to sources.

Police sources said that Iesha and the father of Kianna and her siblings have an open case with the Administration for Children’s Services stemming from domestic-violence incidents that played out in front of the kids.

“Our top priority is protecting the safety and well-being of all children in New York City,” said an ACS spokeswoman. “We are investigating this case with the NYPD.”