This exclusive photo — provided to The Post by the father — shows tragic Atiana Wang, one of three babies attacked by a berserk, cleaver- and butcher knife-wielding nanny on Friday at an illegal Queens care center for moms and their newborns.
The nanny’s knife entered the 13-day-old baby’s torso near her navel, said Chen Wang, 30.
“The knife went through the body – from the front to the back,” he told The Post as he stopped by the scene of the carnage Saturday, the Mei Xin Care Center at 43-67 161st St. in Flushing.
He was there to pick up the baby’s supplies — including diapers and formula — and to then rush back to his wife and baby’s side at the Cohen Children’s Medical Center on 76th Avenue.
“This is our first child,” the Brooklyn man told The Post.
“We try our best to help the mommy and the baby,” he said of the decision to treat his wife and newborn to a month-long, post-partum stay at Mei Xin.
The center provides the traditional Chinese month-long, intensive mother-baby care called “zuo yue zi” — a centuries-old practice that translates to “sitting the month.”
Experts say there are dozens of such centers in the city, with most catering to pregnant Chinese women who come on tourist visas, with the express intent of securing coveted US citizenship for their babies.
“We try our best to help the mommy and the baby,” the dad said of the center. “We didn’t know we gotta suffer this much. We didn’t know that there is crazy people in there.”
The accused attacker, baby-care worker Yu Fen Wang, 52, of Flushing, remained in custody at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Queens, where she was undergoing a psychiatric evaluation.
Additional reporting by Laura Italiano