Woman Suffers Miscarriage After An Attack While Waiting For Bus

A pregnant mother had a miscarriage and lost her unborn child after being attacked by two schoolboys while waiting for a bus in Scotland.

The woman is claimed to have gotten into a fight with two teenagers on Tranent High Street in East Lothian last Friday at 6.20pm. The youths pushed the pregnant mother off a bench, knocking her to the ground before fleeing.

Her husband drove her to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary the next afternoon after she complained of ‘bleeding and intense and intolerable pain’.

Following the event, her distraught husband issued a social media appeal to find the teenagers.

He later issued an update on Tuesday, disclosing that his wife had a miscarriage while in the hospital.

He wrote: “I just want to update everyone about the condition of my wife.

“It is with a heavy heart to inform the community that my wife had a miscarriage, pregnancy loss and she is still in the hospital recuperating.

“This is a very traumatic, heartbreaking, and horrible experience for us, especially for my wife and kids.

“I am making an appeal to everyone, if you have sons and daughters, nieces [and] nephews, please have a word with them.

“Teach them and remind them every day how to respect people and behave in public places. Good manners should be taught and start at home.”

People were shocked to read the post with one person responding: “Sorry to hear this, hope they charge whoever did this to your wife and baby.”

Another said: “I’m so sorry for this devastating loss, I hope in time you get justice.”

And another said: “Oh my God, that’s so terrible. I really hoped she would get better. Love to you all.”

According to the social media request, the males were high school students dressed in black uniforms, with one wearing shorts and the other wearing trousers.

The pregnant mother even gave them a seat and attempted to be friendly, but teenagers were ‘nasty’.

After being harmed, she became enraged and informed them that she was pregnant. They “said sorry and ran away,” according to the social media post.

Writing on Saturday afternoon, the husband said: “Just an update regarding my post last night, my wife is bleeding now and she is in severe and unbearable pain.

“We are waiting for the ambulance service. This is a call for justice.”

Mike Falconer, chairperson for Tranent and Elphinstone Community Council, said: “My absolute sincerest sympathies to them, this is absolutely awful.

“Thankfully things like this don’t happen often.

“I hope they’re able to trace the people responsible and they face up to what they’ve done.”

A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “We received a report of an assault on High Street, Tranent, which happened on Friday, 30 August.
‘Enquiries are ongoing.”

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