Pregnant Woman Beaten With Baseball Bat By Gang Of Intruders While In Labour

A woman was beaten with a baseball bat by a gang of sick intruders while in labour.

Her contractions were six minutes apart and she was about to leave for hospital when five masked thugs used crowbars to smash their way into her house in Beambridge, Pitsea, Essex.

They beat her with a baseball bat and slashed her face with a knife in the attack on Monday night.

The unnamed 22-year-old woman was rushed to Basildon Hospital and suffered a haemorrhage. Fortunately despite her injuries and the trauma, she gave birth to a healthy baby on Tuesday.

The horrific attack happened while the woman’s partner was upstairs collecting her hospital bag and her two-year-old child was asleep in bed.

Detectives from Basildon CID are hunting the masked gang which smashed its way in to the house, in Beambridge, Pitsea, with crowbars on Monday night.

The woman’s partner, who does not want to be named, said: “My partner’s 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. My partner started screaming my name and I just heard these men shouting something like ‘where’s the money?’, ‘give us the money!’.”

The five-strong gang beat the mother with baseball bats and crowbars before slashing her across the face.

Her 32-year-old partner, said: “I came down running down the stairs and they were attacking her. 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 yobs grabbed the couple’s iPad, a Sony Experia mobile phone and £60 in cash they had taken out for cabs to the hospital and food. They then ran off.

Her 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.”

The gang included five men, all in their 20s.

Source: Mirror