Stroller-Pushing Mom Robbed: Cops

Ridley police say the suspect pushed the woman to the ground and stole her purse.

Ridley police are looking for the man they say robbed a mother while she was pushing her daughter in a stroller on Friday in Woodlyn, Delaware County.

According to authorities, the woman was walking on Vauclain Avenue around 5 p.m. with her 8-month-old child when a man came up behind her, pushed her to the ground and stole her purse from the stroller’s storage compartment.

The man fled the scene in an older model green car heading toward MacDade Boulevard, police say.

The suspect is described as a black male, approximately 5-feet-7 with short hair. He was last seen wearing a long black shirt and black sneakers.
 
Anyone with information is urged to call Ridley Township Police.
 

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