‘Ice Pick Nick’ nabbed
An 11-year-old girl slashed in the head by an apparently homeless maniac was left “showered in blood” by the attack and is “lucky to be alive,” her mother fumed to The Post, while demanding the career criminal be put behind bars.
“I was thinking, ‘Oh, my God! She is going to die right now!’ ” Malgorzata Sladek recalled of her daughter, Maxi Park. “Her lips were blue. She was losing color.
“The cut was so big,” the mother of two added. “Her clothes, her jacket were covered in blood. It looked like you poured red water on her, like she was showered in blood.”
The fiend knifed the youngster in the back of the head and cut her ear as she walked down the street holding her mom’s hand, authorities said.
“I turned around and saw her hair on the sidewalk,” said Sladek. “Her head was sliced from top to bottom. Blood was pouring out of her head. I was in shock.”
The child required multiple stitches and staples to fix the gash and was “doing a little better” Saturday while still in the hospital, Sladek said.
‘Need to change laws’
Shaquan Cummings, 30, allegedly preyed on the girl outside the 116th Street subway station Friday and fled underground, moments after he’s accused of sucker-punching an unsuspecting 43-year-old woman around the corner, according to sources.
“Bitch, get the f--k out of my way!” Cummings allegedly told the woman, prosecutors said.
Sladek tried to chase down Cummings, even hailing a conductor to stop a train from departing, but he managed to escape. Cops ultimately tracked him down a block away.
Cummings was then cornered by a raging mob of Harlem locals seeking street justice, forcing a group of NYPD officers to protect him.
Cummings, a resident of Jerome Avenue Men’s Shelter in The Bronx, was held without bail Saturday after an arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court on two counts of assault and acting in a manner injurious to a child.
He’s been arrested more than 20 times, including for assault, criminal mischief and fare evasion, sources said.
“My daughter could have been dead,” said Sladek. “Why is this person walking the streets of New York? They need to change the laws.”