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 who hurt her be put behind bars.
“I was thinking, ‘Oh my God! She is going to die right now,’ ” recalled Malgorzata Sladek, referring to 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 was covered in blood. It looked like you poured red water on her, like she was showered in blood.”
The fiend — who has a lengthy rap sheet — 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 recovering in the hospital, her mom said.
Cummings, 30, allegedly preyed on the girl outside the 116th Street 6 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.
Sladek tried to chase down Cummings, even hailing a conductor to stop a train from departing, but he managed to get away.
Cops ultimately tracked him down a block away.
The suspect was then cornered by a raging mob of Harlem locals seeking street justice, forcing a group of NYPD officers to protect him, video showed.
In the clip, a man appears to poke him with a cane as the alleged assailant cowers behind cops.
Cummings, a resident of Jerome Avenue Men’s Shelter in The Bronx, was awaiting arraignment Saturday 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 — not with me anymore,” said Sladek, who also has a 9-year-old son.
“Why is this person walking the streets of New York? They need to change the laws.”
Residents who live near the Norwood shelter said its occupants notoriously harass people, but some pegged Cummings as among the more well-behaved temporary tenants.
“All of them, one day they are normal, the other they are acting up, but I never see him acting up,” said one Norwood resident.
“I feel really bad — slashing women, slashing children. That’s big. I thought he was one of the best ones over there.”
“[The shelter residents] harass women. They attack people, especially if they beg you for money and you don’t give them,” another resident added.
“I live around here and that’s the worst thing they could have put there. It’s not safe. They can go off at any time.”
