A three-year-old girl has been left traumatised after a teenage yob wiped spit on her face and told her he had coronavirus, in a sickening attack.
Matt Batty, 28, was returning from the shops with his daughter Alice-Rose when the pair were targeted by a gang of four youths on bikes near their home in Barnsley, South Yorkshire.
Little Alice-Rose was assaulted by one of the boys after she innocently told the group to "go home because of the nasty bugs" on April 19.
The group confronted the pair before one of them launched spat on his hand and wiped it on her face, saying "I've got corona." Nearly two weeks on from the horrifying incident, Matt says his daughter is still suffering from nightmares about her attackers, Yorkshire Live reports.
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