LOS ANGELES (KNX) — A homeless woman is accused of assaulting a grandmother while she was carrying her 9-month-old granddaughter Wednesday on the Venice Oceanfront Walk.
Police said the homeless woman was having an apparent breakdown, according to CBS Los Angeles.
“She heard the woman right behind her, saying, ‘You, you give me that baby,’ and she turned around. The woman lunged at her, said, ‘Give me that baby. They took my baby, so I’m going to take your baby,’ and then she, with both of her arms, grabbed my mom’s wrist and pulled the coffee that my mom was holding out of her hand and then threw it at my baby’s face,” the baby’s mother Katy Gross told the station.
The coffee was not very hot, so baby Gilda avoided injury, according to CBS.
Following the incident, Gross told the outlet the city needs to find a solution for the homelessness, away from parks and schools and children in response to reported plans for a homeless services center to be built in the area of the alleged attack on her mother.
“I don’t harbor resentment toward that woman. I hope she finds help, but I also want there to be protection for us as well. She is very vulnerable,” Gross said of her infant daughter. “That woman is vulnerable. They both need protection.”
The homeless woman is facing battery charges in the alleged attack, police said.
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