A mother says she was spat on by a stranger while visiting a park in downtown Toronto last Friday in an apparently random attack.
Terri-Lynn Langdon tells CTV News Toronto that she was at a park near Bay and College streets with her 11-month-old daughter and her personal support assistant in the moments leading up to the incident.
“This man came up to me and spit on me twice,” Langdon recalled, while adding that the man was wearing a mask at the time of the incident.Langdon said she immediately left the park to report the incident to the police. Days later, police informed her that security surveillance cameras in the area did not capture the assault.
Langdon said she wishes that she had said something at the time, but admits she was so shocked by the incident that she was left speechless.In March, she said she was in the area of Yonge and Carlton streets when a stranger approached her and made a derogatory remark about her qualifications as a parent.When Langdon attempted to get away from the woman, she said she was then followed. In that case, Langdon said, the stranger was later arrested.
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