A mother screamed at her toddler's alleged attacker in Cornwall Park, Hastings.
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A 3-year-old was left covered in blood and bleeding from his mouth and nose following an alleged attack by a Mongrel Mob member on the boy's dad in a Hastings park yesterday afternoon.
A source told the Herald the boy was on a swing when the gang member screamed atthe toddler's father and the boy's mum, who is heavily pregnant, to leave Cornwall Park.
The 20-year-old dad went to grab his son off the swing, and it is then that the Herald understands the child was hit in the face, as he was being held by his dad.
The source said the gang member then continued screaming at the parents, even after injuring the child.
The toddler was injured in the fracas at the Hastings park. Photo / Supplied
Photos obtained by the Herald show the child covered in blood and bleeding from the mouth and nose.
In one of the photos, it appears to be from the boy's 21-year-old mother, who wrote in a caption: "So pregnant 'n' helpless. So just to know when I go to police it ain't snitching it's called protecting what's mine."
Another photo's caption reads: "I wish I could have done more my son. My heart ain't never been broken [like] this before! A grown man put his hands on my baby."
