A 3-year-old girl’s skull was fractured when a heartless, moped-riding brute allegedly rammed into her on a Bronx sidewalk and fled, police said.
Mylah Rojas was walking along Holland Avenue in Williamsbridge with her mom when the two-wheeled blue moped with black stripes on the side struck her just after 1 p.m. Friday, according to authorities.
Surveillance footage captured the perp limping while walking on a sidewalk after the hit-and-run. DCPI
Mylah Rojas suffered a fractured skull from the maniac moped driver. J.C. Rice“It was a regular day. We was just coming out the building, and the scooter just came out of nowhere, so fast, and he just hit her and took her a couple of feet away,” Mylah’s distraught mother, Mariel Rojas, told The Post Saturday.
“I was so shocked that I didn’t realize [at first] that [the moped driver] had left the scene. I was just concentrating on my daughter,” she said.
The girl “was bleeding, blood was everywhere, she had a split in her forehead,” Rojas continued.
Mylah, who is being treated for brain bleeding at Jacobi Medical Center, also has a fracture in her left eye, which is swollen shut, according to her mom.
“It’s something you don’t imagine happening ever. You just pray,” she said.
Mylah is doing “a little better today,” her mother said.
The little girl, who has a unicorn balloon tied to her hospital bed, is “talking, she’s sitting up, she’s coloring. … She’s active, but then she complains of her eye being closed shut. She’s in a lot of pain.”
The family doesn’t know how long Mylah will be hospitalized.
The moped-riding brute struck the 3-year-old while she walked with her mom on Holland Avenue. DCPI“We’re still waiting for results. It’s a waiting game now. It’s a brain injury, so we’re just waiting to see what’s going to happen,” Rojas said.
The man, who was wearing an orange jacket, black sweatpants and black sandals during the collision, simply walked away from the gruesome scene, Rojas said.
“He limped away. I don’t know if the scooter was damaged and he couldn’t turn it on, I don’t know,” she said.
Later surveillance footage showed the perp limping while walking on a sidewalk, without the orange jacket.
Police are asking for the public’s help identifying the creep.
“He needs to show his face and be responsible for what he did…I just want for him to come to justice,” Rojas said.
Police are asking for the public’s help identifying the heartless perp. DCPI“It could happen to someone else and it could be much worse. The city needs to do something about all these scooters in the streets. The city needs to step up and get this under control,” she said.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, or on X @NYPDTips.
