A nine-year-old boy has been left trau­ma­tised, af­ter he was as­sault­ed and robbed of his cell­phone in a play park at­tack in San Fer­nan­do. The play­park is sit­u­at­ed at the back of the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion’s Ol­era Heights apart­ment build­ings.

The boy’s moth­er said around 5 pm last Fri­day, her son was play­ing in the park with his friends when the sus­pect, be­lieved to be in his late teens to ear­ly 20s, who he knew from the area, ap­proached him.

“He punched the child on his arm, snatched the phone val­ued $1,100, and ran to­wards the build­ings. He is shak­en up. He is a brave boy. The sus­pect cuffed him on his right hand, that was hold­ing the phone. One cuff to loosen his hand, and he took the phone.”