The mom of a 13-year-old Brooklyn boy violently robbed by a deranged vagrant before the nut allegedly slashed a woman Monday says she was shocked to learn he was still on the streets.
Fanny Cardenas told The Post on Tuesday that prosecutors assured her that violent ex-con Muslim Brunson would be institutionalized after attacking her son.
“He’s still on the street?” Cardenas said. “After he attacked my son, they told me he would be admitted to a mental institution.
“The Brooklyn DA’s office told me that they would send him to a mental institution because he already had a history of mental illness,” the 38-year-old doctor’s office worker said. “They need to lock him up. It’s scary that he’s still on the street and people are exposed to a man like that.”
Career-criminal Brunson, 46, is now facing attempted-murder and assault charges in the Monday afternoon attack in SoHo on Arizona native Megan Berg, 25, who was randomly slashed in the neck with a broken bottle. She is in the intensive-care unit at Bellevue Hospital.
Brunson was supposed to get locked up after the Sept. 17, 2019, attack on Cardenas’ young teen son on a Queens-bound C train between Liberty and Van Siclen avenues in Brooklyn.
Police said Brunson snatched the boy’s phone and scuffled with the youngster when he tried to get it back.
The maniac caught a break when he was sentenced to a mental-health program as an alternative to jail, leaving him free to roam around.
That came to an end in 2022 when he randomly slammed an off-duty NYPD civilian employee into a pole on the subway in Manhattan.
That case landed Brunson at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility until his parole in February 2024.
On Monday, he allegedly unleashed the new attack on Berg.
Cardenas said it was a chilling update.
“He shouldn’t be on the street because he could attack anybody,” she said Tuesday. “Something’s not right with his brain. They need to help him in some way.”
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