The seven-months-pregnant woman sucker-punched by a madman while walking down a Bed-Stuy street Thursday says she’s frightened to set foot outside after the cruel attack.
“I was just walking and somebody slapped me in the face . . . and I fell down,” Jannatul Ferdous, 34, told The Post through a translator.
“I’m scared,” she said. “My neck and back hurt.”
The Bangladeshi immigrant was walking on a sidewalk on Monroe Street near Ralph Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant at 3:45 p.m. Thursday when Willie Stephens, 33, allegedly laid her out flat as he passed by.
He didn’t get far.
“There were some security guards on the street who grabbed him,” Ferdous said. “I don’t know what happened. I went to the hospital.”
Ferdous suffered a concussion and a black eye and was taken to Woodhull Hospital, a police source said.
“The baby is OK,” she said, adding she has no clue why Stephens targeted her.
“I don’t understand . . . The police asked me why he pushed me and slapped me. I don’t know why. He just did it,” she said.
“He’s a bad guy. He should be put in jail.”
Stephens has a long rap sheet, with a dozen arrests for crimes including robbery and disorderly conduct in Georgia, a police source said.
Witnesses said Stephens exhibited unhinged behavior before the attack.
His antics included mouthing off to a police officer outside the 81st Precinct station house on Ralph Avenue, said Ralph Scott, 53, a teacher at a nearby elementary school.
Scott said he also saw Stephens punch Ferdous.
“He wasn’t in the right frame of mind. I think he was very upset and angry and wanted to do something,” Scott said.
“He took it out on a poor pregnant woman. It’s insane and unfortunate that things like this happen in the world.
“I hate to suspect it’s a mental-health issue, but this is not normal,” Scott added.
Nasrin Akter, 32, a friend of Ferdous who was walking with her when the attacker struck, alerted school security guards.
“I was crying. It was scary,” Akter said. “This man is crazy.”
Stephens was awaiting arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court Friday night.
Because Ferdous was wearing traditional Muslim garb, the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force probed the incident, but officials decided it was not a hate crime, a police source said.