Subway shover's previous victim warned DA she could strike again

Subway shover's previous victim warned DA she could strike again

A Brooklyn woman who was allegedly beaten by subway shover Anthonia Egegbara three months ago recalled Thursday how she warned authorities not to let the “menace to society” go free.

A Brooklyn woman who was allegedly beaten to a pulp by accused subway shover Anthonia Egegbara three months ago recalled Thursday how she warned authorities in vain not to let the “menace to society” go free.

Jasmine Robles fumed that Egegbara, 29, was only charged with third-degree assault, a misdemeanor, after her July 5 beatdown on a Harlem train — allowing her to walk free without bail and allegedly attack another stranger inside the Times Square subway station this week.

“The girl attacked again. She did something worse,” Robles, 40, told The Post from her Bedford-Stuyvesant home.

“They released her back into the public to continue to be the menace to society that she has proven to be.”

Egegbara — who has a history of mental health problems and has been diagnosed with schizophrenia — was finally locked up on $100,000 bail Wednesday for allegedly shoving Lenny Javier into the side of a No. 3 train as it barreled into the Times Square station. 

Egegbara is facing attempted murder and other charges in that case.

“It took for someone to almost die to have bail set,” said Robles.

The impact with the moving front car knocked Javier, 42, back onto the platform with such force that one of her shoes flew off. She suffered injuries that include a broken nose and fractured chin.

The Post has been unable to reach Javier for comment.

Robles — who has been seeing a trauma therapist for PTSD since her own assault — said she hasn’t been able to sleep since hearing about Egegbara’s latest subway attack.

Breaking into tears, she divulged harrowing details from the summer assault that left her with a broken nose, as well as a bloody eye and a knocked-out tooth.

Robles had boarded an A train at 181st Street around 1 a.m. after going to watch the July Fourth fireworks when she spotted a woman in her train car sitting with a suitcase and other belongings.

The woman then began ranting at a male straphanger, getting in his face and calling him a “f–king dirty asshole” and other insults. He pulled out a switchblade and shoved the unhinged woman, before getting off at the next stop, Robles remembered.

That’s when the woman, identified by cops as Egegbara, set her sights on Robles, who looked down at the time and tried not to make eye contact.

“I heard her walking. I saw her feet got in front of me,” Robles recalled. “She didn’t yell, she didn’t say anything … I started to look up and I saw her beady little dark eyes — and then I saw blackness.”

Robles remembered feeling “the impact on my face” and seeing “three little stars” as she blacked out for a few seconds.

When she came to, the assailant had “jumped” on her and “was hitting me.” 

“I burst out of my seat and tried to cover my face,” Robles said. “I was just fighting to survive and to defend myself.

“I was screaming, ‘Help, help, call 911 someone.’ I was screaming like a maniac, a maniac.”

Another passenger came to Robles’ rescue, wrapping the attacker’s arms behind her back and pinning her to the floor.

“He looked at me and said, ‘You are bleeding,’ and that’s when I realized my tooth was out of my mouth,” Robles said, recalling how she found the knocked-out tooth on the subway floor and took it with her to the hospital.

Robles said she and the good Samaritan held the assailant until cops arrived — and let Egegbara off with a desk appearance ticket with a July 19 court hearing.

The wrist-slap prompted Robles to reach out to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office with the stark warning that Egegbara “is a menace to society … she is going to do it again.”

“This is someone you have to keep off the streets,” Robles said she told prosecutors.

Third-degree assault is among the long list of crimes for which judges can no longer impose bail under a controversial 2020 reform law.

Robles believes Egegbara should been hit with more serious charges in her case.

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