A mask-wearing maniac who tried to grab a 2-year-old girl from her mother seethed, “That’s my baby!” while waving a knife at the terrified woman — who grabbed her toddler and ran for her life, she told The Post Saturday.
Cecilia Carias clutched her dark-haired little girl and wept as she recounted the frightening episode, which unfolded outside a laundromat near Atlantic Avenue and 109th Street in South Richmond Hill.
Carias, 30, was doing the wash and had brought the toddler into the nearly empty parking lot to play for a bit when a man in a sweatshirt approached on a purple bike.
“I saw a man approaching on a bicycle,” she recalled. “I found it strange because he was watching us too much. Then he approached. I thought he had clothes washing too, but no.”
Her daughter played with some leaves, and fell.
As she sat on the ground, Carias said, the stranger approached.