Mother wants justice for her 11-year-old daughter, who was fatally injured in an attack in New York

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From Georgette Roberts, Christina Narizhnaya And Rich Calder

An 11-year-old girl who was slashed in the head by an apparently homeless maniac was left “covered in blood” by the attack and is “lucky to be alive,” her mother grumbled to The Post – while simultaneously denouncing the Career criminal who had injured her demanded to be put behind bars.

“I thought, ‘Oh my God! She’s going to die now,” Malgorzata Sladek recalled, referring to her daughter Maxi Park.

“Her lips were blue. It lost color.”

“The cut was so big,” the mother of two added.

“Her clothes, her jacket were covered in blood. It looked like you had poured red water on her, like she was covered in blood.”

The perpetrator – who has a lengthy criminal record – stabbed the teen in the back of the head and cut her ear as she walked down the street holding her mother’s hand, authorities said.

“I turned around and saw her hair on the sidewalk,” Sladek said. “Her head was cut open from top to bottom.” Blood flowed from her head. I was shocked.”

The child required multiple stitches and staples to repair the cut and was “slightly better” Saturday while still recovering in the hospital, her mother said.

Sources say Cummings, 30, chased the girl outside the 116th Street 6 subway station on Friday and fled underground shortly after he was accused of punching an unsuspecting 43-year-old woman around the corner.

Sladek attempted to chase Cummings, even calling a conductor to stop a train from departing, but he managed to escape.

Police eventually tracked him down a block away.

The suspect was then cornered by an angry mob of Harlem residents seeking justice on the streets, forcing a group of NYPD officers to protect him, video showed.

In the clip, a man appears to be poking him with a stick as the alleged attacker cowers behind police officers.

Cummings, a resident of the Jerome Avenue Men’s Shelter in the Bronx, was awaiting arraignment Saturday in Manhattan Criminal Court on two counts of felony assault and child endangerment.

Sources say he has been arrested more than 20 times, including for assault, criminal coercion and tax evasion.

“My daughter could have been dead – no longer with me,” said Sladek, who also has a 9-year-old son.

“Why is this person walking the streets of New York? They need to change the laws.”

Residents who live near the Norwood shelter said the residents were notoriously harassing people, but some described Cummings as one of the better-behaved temporary tenants.

“One day they’re all normal, the next they’re behaving, but I never see him when he’s behaving,” said a Norwood resident.

“I feel really bad – I cut down women and children. That’s big. I thought he was one of the best over there.”

“(The shelter residents) harass women. They attack people, especially when they beg for money and you don’t give it,” another resident added.

“I live near here and this is the worst thing they could have put there. It’s not safe. You can leave at any time.”