Boston area mom punches baby in mouth and is surrounded on bus

A Boston Mom is accused of punching her toddler son in the mouth on a city bus and shouting expletives at him before being surrounded by a group of passengers and kept on the bus until police arrived, according to the police.

Erica Ryan pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault and battery on a child causing injury. Although prosecutors requested bail be set at $25,000 the judge set bail at $500 and ordered Ryan to stay away from her boy.

Boston transit police said the 25-year-old Ryan punched her 1-year-old son and called him names for refusing to eat Tuesday on the bus. A “hostile” crowd of fellow passengers surrounded her and wouldn’t let her off the bus until authorities arrived, police said.

After police arrived and separated Ryan from the crowd, she shouted, “No one is going to take my baby!” authorities said. Dried blood was found around the baby’s mouth, police said.

Ryan denied intentionally striking the boy, according to a police report. Her attorney, Adelio De Miranda, didn’t return a phone message Wednesday.

“I was just trying to feed my baby on the crowded bus, then my hand slipped and I hit him in the mouth,” Ryan said, according to the report.

However, three bus passengers told police that Ryan had been verbally abusing the toddler with a series of vulgar expletives.

The boy was treated at a hospital and is now staying with his grandparents.

(Note: Moms…, don’t punch your babies. Judges…, don’t place a 1-year-old into the hands of the people that raised the very monster that was capable of punching her own child. “Hostile” crowd…, great job!)