The heartbroken mother of a teenage girl who died after tumbling off the top of a subway car last weekend said she’s so distraught she doesn’t want to live — and begged other kids not to participate in the dangerous social media stunt .
“Stop [subway] surfing — it’s not a game,” mom Maria Elena Ortiz, 31, told The Post Tuesday between wrenching sobs. “If you die, think of the pain you will cause your family. Please kids, don’t do it.
“I don’t want to live right now,” Ortiz, a cleaner from Jackson Heights, Queens, added as she spoke through a translator. “I feel so desperate. She was my baby.”
A family friend who goes by the name of Ever also said that nobody knew 13-year-old Krystel Romero was riding on top of the trains — they didn’t even think she took the subways.
“They were doing it for social media,” Ever said of Romero and her 14-year-old pal, who was critically injured when the two girls fell off a No. 7 train in Corona Sunday night.