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A Salvadoran immigrant who is pregnant was severely beaten on Thursday in the subway car in Washington DC as she finished her work and was on her way home.
In statements to Univision The woman, who did not want to be identified, assured that despite the incident, she was fine, as was her baby.
“I take the subway that is coming to Franconia on the blue line and I climb on Benning Road when I get in I sit in the seats of the Metro and a lady comes up to me and I thought she was going to ask me something but she punched me and me he pulls back and keeps hitting me, hitting me saying English words like bad words and offending me, “he told NoticasYa.
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“My biggest fear was my pregnancy, so I tried more to defend myself and not attack the person who was attacking me. I told her that please do not hit me that I was pregnant and she kept recording and hitting me,” said the woman from 42 years old, who is four months pregnant.
The aggressor finished beating her only when someone pressed the security button and the subway stopped, and she ran out of sight.
The woman assured that the police arrived at the scene and that she was treated by paramedics.
Although she is now safe, she said she was “outraged” because she felt that no one helped her in the middle of the beating.
“Nobody did anything,” said the woman, who all she could do was cover “my stomach with my baby and let him hit me and see how I did to get out of the subway,” she told Univision.
She also related that while the lady beat her, she yelled at her why she didn’t speak English.
“My call is for the people who travel in the subway that please be very careful, do not come distracted on the phone and always be aware that there are people like that,” said the victim, according to the report of News.
So far the woman has not wanted to reveal her identity for fear of reprisals. The authorities are investigating the incident and ask that if you have information call 1-866-411-TIPS.
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