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A cruel thug ripped a $400 gold chain off the neck of a 3-year-old boy who was sitting in his stroller and being pushed by his mom in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn on Tuesday, law-enforcement sources said.

The crook and an accomplice attacked tot Harvey Hernandez in the lobby of his family’s Malcolm X Boulevard apartment building at 11:45 p.m. after following him, his teenage brother and mom Riyana Guerrero home from a Laundromat.

“I was screaming ‘Let go of my baby! Let go of my baby!’” the mom told The Post in Spanish yesterday.

“[The man] didn’t say anything — he just looked at us and laughed, almost mocking us.

“How could he do this to a helpless little baby!”

Guerrero believes that the thieves might have even kidnapped the boy if neighbors, alerted by her screams, didn’t scare them away.

“I just started screaming and fighting with him, trying to get him away from my baby,” Guerrero said of the teenage creep who snatched the necklace.

He and his thug pal had stalked the family back to their home from the laundry, where Guerrero had just finished her weekly wash.

“They were eye-balling them — and the chain,” said one police source.

The duo attacked as the family got inside the lobby of their building, kicking in the door after the desperate mother had locked it.

After neighbors started coming out of their apartments at the sound of the mother’s screams, the crooks fled with the necklace.

The chain was a gift from Harvey’s godparents for his baptism. It has a small medallion on it with the image of hands holding a child.

Guerrero said she’s just happy that she and her children weren’t hurt.

“I didn’t care about the gold; I was just worried about my [kids],” Guerrero said. “It was horrible. I don’t feel safe going out into the street now.”

The mom said her 13-year-old son was “traumatized’’ to the point where he’s afraid to go outside.

“Now, none of us feel safe,’’ she said. “We plan on moving.’’

The chain-snatcher and his pal, believed to both be about 16 or 17, remain at large.

“I just want the police to catch all of them and do what needs to be done,” Guerrero said.

If she put a $300 gold chain on her 3-year-old son to go to the laundromat, she deserves the trauma.

The chain was a gift from Harvey’s godparents for his baptism. It has a small medallion on it with the image of hands holding a child.

The duo attacked as the family got inside the lobby of their building, kicking in the door after the desperate mother had locked it.

But the mother's still a dumbshit. (And if the godparents really intended that gold chain as everyday apparel for the kid, they're dumbshits, too.

Sue U wrote:Here in Camden, garden spot of North America, it's quite common to see diamond stud earrings on baby girls (at least the Puerto Rican and Dominican ones). Are their mothers and fathers all dumbshits?

Lord Jim wrote:

If she put a $300 gold chain on her 3-year-old son to go to the laundromat, she deserves the trauma.

I would imagine that she probably didn't put the chain on him just for that occasion, and why should any law abiding person going peacefully about their business in a public place "deserve the trauma" of being assaulted and robbed under any circumstances?

in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn

Authorities on Tuesday night were looking for a man who knocked a 4-year-old boy to the ground in Lynwood and took off with the child's gold chain.

The boy was at a laundromat in the 11400 block of Atlantic Avenue when the man walked up, grabbed the chain and pushed the child to the ground, which caused the chain to rip free from the boy's neck, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

Authorities said the boy was scratched on the bottom of his neck in the attack.

The suspect is described as African American, between 25 and 30, about 5 foot 10 to 6 foot and weighing between 160 and 180 pounds, the department said.

The man has black hair, a thin mustache, brown eyes and was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, a black hat and black pants, according to the department.

The man was spotted running south on Atlantic Avenue after the Aug. 20 incident.

Anyone with information is asked to call detectives at (323) 568-4800.

A mobile phone was stolen from a toddler as she played with it while out shopping with her mother in Lancashire.

The Apple iPhone 4 was taken from the hands of 20-month-old Luella Reid while she was in the Hype clothes store in Ormskirk.

Her mother, Daniella Hinnigan, 26, from Kirkby, Merseyside, had given her the phone so she could watch a film on it.

CCTV showed a man approach Luella in her buggy and appear to leave the shop with the phone.

Lancashire Police are appealing for anyone who recognises the man, who has grey hair and glasses, to contact them.

Ms Hinnigan said she had turned her back for a moment in the shop and her daughter told her the phone had gone.

Not believing she had thrown it away, she asked shop staff to check their CCTV.

She said: "It was literally four seconds I turned my back, but I'm glad it's just a mobile phone.

"People do say, what are you doing giving a 20-month-old an iPhone, but you should be able to give you daughter anything, it shouldn't be taken out of her hand."

"She doesn't let go of it, she is addicted to the iPhone and the iPad at home, she just watches them constantly so I knew she wouldn't have done it (thrown it away)."