“The punch was that hard you could heard the connection as this man hit Elsie”, said Mrs Duckers, a carer. I can’t believe what me and my daughter had to see last night it was just so horrific. I don’t want anyone to touch Elsie ever again.
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“The baby girl was taken to hospital as a precaution and has since been discharged”.
Amy Duckers, 27, said there was no warning before a man punched her five-day-old daughter Elsie in a Tesco store in Baguley in the Greater Manchester on Monday.
The shocking incident took place at a branch in Baguley, Wythenshawe as little Elsie Rose was being shown off to pals by her proud mum Amy Duckers.
As the baby’s horrified mother looked on in shock, the man suddenly struck Elsie to the head before recoiling when the infant burst into tears. It was the first time I’d taken Elsie out since she was born.
‘He left her with a huge red mark and we at first were just stunned. “Then I just screamed”, she told the Manchester Evening News.
“We were mortified. My daughter was screaming thinking he had killed the baby”, Duckers said.
“Sorry, I thought it was a doll”: the man who attacked baby Elsie Rose was arrested by police. [Photo by Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images] Once she was able to gain the ability to speak again, Amy chastised the man for his volatile act, which he actually attempted to refute, at first.
She added: ‘He then just apologised and said ‘sorry I thought it was a doll’.
A man was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a baby at a supermarket in south Manchester, police said.
Ms Duckers praised Tesco Baguley for its handling of th situation in a Facebook post.
Elsie is now reportedly recovering at home, although she is still a little lethargic. “Strangers were even hugging me at the hospital when I told them about it”, Ms Duckers said.
Officers were called to the Tesco store at about 18:45 BST on Monday, following on Altrincham Road in Baguley reports a youngster had been hit.
Amy, a fulltime mum who lives in Brooklands, said: “She was quite sickly and sleepy last night but at least she is home now”.
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A 63-year old detained on suspicion of assault is now in custody being questioned by officers.
