woman loses 32 weeks old pregnancy to thugs#

ning 21 year old Malorie Bantala was 32 weeks pregnant
when she was attacked by two thugs in Talfourd Place, Peckham,
south east London on Monday June 15th . Two men wearing
motorbike crash helmets pushed her to the ground and
continually kicked and stamped on her stomach around 8pm on
Monday, before running off.
Police gave her emergency care at the scene before she was
taken to hospital, but doctors were unable to save her baby.
Bantala remains in a critical condition in intensive care, Express
UK reports.
Her mother, Ida, 49, revealed today how her eldest daughter was
"so excited" about the upcoming birth and had already bought
some clothes for her baby.
The mother-of-four said: "She was excited. She bought the baby's
clothes and everything.
"Today she lost her baby. She was in pain and she was crying.
"She's in hospital doing OK but lost the baby this morning and is
so upset. She was happy. She wanted the baby.
"I didn't know who the baby's father was."
Ms Bantala was attacked on a patch of grass yards from the
entrance to Osprey House, a block of flats on the Peckham estate
where she has lived since 2001.
A 40 year-old neighbour, who asked not to be named, said: "I
came home from work and saw two guys running off. I didn't
know what had happened until I saw her lying on the floor. She
was on the floor in distress, crying. She said she had been kicked
in the stomach. I helped her up and she thought she was bleeding
so I helped her to my toilet."