A pregnant
woman was beaten with baseball bats and slashed in the face with a
butcher's knife when a masked gang burst into her home while she was
giving birth.
The
22-year-old was about to leave for hospital when five masked men
smashed their way into her house in Basildon, Essex, at around 8.30pm
using crowbars.
She
suffered a haemorrhage and may have a fractured skull after the gang
attacked her with crowbars and a knife while her two-year-old child was
asleep in bed.
Her
32-year-old partner, who was upstairs collecting the hospital bag, came
running to protect her and said the young mother is now too traumatised
to go back into the house.
The
mother-of-two, who has not been identified, was rushed to Basildon
Hospital and gave birth to a healthy baby on Tuesday despite her
injuries.
Her partner
said: 'Her contractions were about six minutes apart, so I went upstairs
to get her hospital bag and to phone the babysitter to come and look
after our two-year-old.
'The next thing I heard a loud smash - like a fish tank shattering.
'Before
we knew it we had five men in the house screaming 'give us your money'.
They cornered my partner then hit her with a crowbar and bats and cut
her across the face screaming and demanding more money.
I just
threw my arms round her to protect her. They carried on beating us. I
was just shouting back at them, 'you are wrong man, she is in labour.
'Me and my girlfriend just started screaming and shouting for help.'
The men grabbed the couple's iPad, a Sony Experia mobile phone and £60 in cash and then ran off.
Police
are now hunting the five men, all ages in their twenties with local
accents, who broke into the home in Beambridge, Pitsea, on Monday night.
Three of the men wore balaclavas and dark clothes, a fourth gang member was white and the fifth was mixed race.
The
woman's partner said: 'I can't even describe to you how angry I am. My
partner is too traumatised to even go back to our home. She is going to
need counselling to help her get through this. To do this to a woman who
is in labour - it's sick.'
Detective
Inspector Joel Henderson, from Basildon CID, said: 'This was a shocking
attack on a young woman who was in labour. It is vital we get those
people responsible off the streets of Basildon.'
1 comment:
Man wickedness to man, even a woman in labour is not spared, may God save us
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