Unaccompanied Migrant Kids Seen Selling Candy In NYC Subways: ‘Shameful, Disgusting, Blatant Child Abuse’

[Sugar Cookie]

Unaccompanied migrant children are navigating the bowels of the city’s subway system and trains to peddle candies to strangers.

On Wednesday, an 11-year-old migrant girl exited an uptown B train at the 59th Street-Columbus Circle station all on her own, carrying a cardboard box filled with peanut M&M’s, Skittles, and Kinder Buenos for sale.

“My mother is on the other side,” the child told The Post in Spanish, before running off solo to tug at riders’ jackets and pant legs and offer treats for $2 a pop.

The mom, who had been selling goodies on the downtown platform, did not say where she and her daughter were from or staying and declined to speak further.

Last week, a young girl in a purple jacket was spotted toting a box full of candy while traveling alone between subway cars aboard a C train, according to footage shared on X, formerly known as Twitter.

The child had been spotted repeatedly selling candy, usually between the 14th and 59th street stations during rush hour, and was believed to be 6 years old, according to the video’s poster.

“This is shameful, disgusting, blatant child abuse,” one user said.

Minors under the age of 14 are not allowed to work at any time, either after school or during summer vacation, according to the state Office of Children and Family Services.

A veteran NYPD transit officer at the Columbus Circle station said she had seen “dozens” of migrant children shilling candies on their own in recent months — including when they should be in class — and was concerned for their safety.

Despite warning parents about their kids’ vulnerability when they come to pick them up at the precinct, she said she has seen the same young faces return again and again on the train platforms.

“No matter how you tell them, you talk to them, you hold them, you say this over and over, and they still do it,” she told The Post.

Others were shocked by the proliferation of underage sellers on their own.

“It makes the country look like a third-world country,” UPS worker Lance Johnson, 73, said.

“It’s a horrible scene.”

Sweets sellers have become a daily fixture throughout the city’s subways since spring 2022, when migrants began pouring into the Big Apple, many from Central and South America and now totaling well over 110,000.

Mothers with tots strapped to their backs in slings rarely raise straphangers’ eyebrows as they drift across subway cars and platforms to sell candy bars, some of whom bring in at most $80 a day.

Why are these parents or guardians or what ever they are arrested.

If they are warned and continue to do it , it shows they will never be law abiding citizens

 

[thuumpr]

Made the mistake of crossing the El Paso border crossing in a vehicle in the evening hours (missed the opportunity to park before hand).

Bumper to bumper gridlocked traffic, eight lanes past customs, into Mexico...

Was shocked to encounter 'toddlers' (sans close supervisiion) with Styrofoam coffee cups going from car to car begging for change.

 

[Kelli]

Someone likely bought the candy with food stamps. And is forcing kiddos to sell for cash.

 

[Alxprkrkrls]

City kids have been selling candy on the trains for YEARS, like decades. Usually there’s a scam like “support our team/youth org” whatever. This is not new. The only reason this made headlines is because they appear to be migrants.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Very young children are not on the train selling candy - It is usually teen males so it is concerning and a crime.

 

[thuumpr]

Very young children are not on the train selling candy - It is usually teen males so it is concerning and a crime.

SC! You're getting this wrong!

Jump on the bandwagon and see this as something 'brand new'. How else are you gonna 'woke'?
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If you look at the pic closely, you'll see a guy ser up to sell water(?) with a smaller person at a truck in the next lane. Also, a couple other folks out of vehicles (also selling?).

 

[Blunderbuss Firozabad]

Then New Yorkers are creating the demand, otherwise, why would they be out there if no one was buying.

Seems to me the NY adults buying from children aren't law-abiding citizens and never will be.

But they don't need candy. And they could buy it elsewhere, close by.

And families need money to survive.

There are children suffering from true "disgusting child abuse" out there.
Selling candy under your parents supervision in a public place is not that, and there is no proof otherwise.


Watch out, Girl Scouts.

We'll, you certainly can't expect to be able to set up shop in front of Ralph's Grocery and shout at me to buy your cookies, can you?

Let's look...

I don't see one bit of difference.

And it doesn't look like people are being arrested in NY. So, they're probably not breaking a law.

Same old exaggerated, "immigrants are all criminals" bullshit shoved in front of us here.

 

[knockout]

Then New Yorkers are creating the demand, otherwise, why would they be out there if no one was buying.

Seems to me the NY adults buying from children aren't law-abiding citizens and never will be.

But they don't need candy. And they could buy it elsewhere, close by.

And families need money to survive.

There are children suffering from true "disgusting child abuse" out there.
Selling candy under your parents supervision in a public place is not that, and there is no proof otherwise.


Watch out, Girl Scouts.

We'll, you certainly can't expect to be able to set up shop in front of Ralph's Grocery and shout at me to buy your cookies, can you?

Let's look...
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I don't see one bit of difference.

And it doesn't look like people are being arrested in NY. So, they're probably not breaking a law.

Same old exaggerated, "immigrants are all criminals" bullshit shoved in front of us here.

No one is arrested in New York, there is no crime in New York, haven’t you been paying attention to the statistics, so what’s your point?

 

[GoneWest]

Sorry, I’d buy candy from a kid-not because I’m abusive but because I can’t say no to them. Don’t think explaining to them that by saying yes I’m proliferating the practice by increasing demand.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

@GoneWest

I'm not worried about [people like you, I am worried about the pervs tat I know ride the NY subway system.

Like the perv that ejaculated on the sleeping woman's face.

 

[thuumpr]

@GoneWest

I'm not worried about [people like you, I am worried about the pervs tat I know ride the NY subway system.

Like the perv that ejaculated on the sleeping woman's face.

If you fall asleep, you have it coming.

 

[Alxprkrkrls]

Sorry, I’d buy candy from a kid-not because I’m abusive but because I can’t say no to them. Don’t think explaining to them that by saying yes I’m proliferating the practice by increasing demand.

I love me some train skittles

 

[BBBLUE77]

Why aren't they in school? You know, learning ENGLISH and how NOT to act like they are from some of the shittiest places on earth?

 

[Danaf]

@GoneWest

I'm not worried about [people like you, I am worried about the pervs tat I know ride the NY subway system.

Like the perv that ejaculated on the sleeping woman's face.

sorry I have only been on a subway like twice, but I digress disgusting

 

[GoneWest]

@GoneWest

I'm not worried about [people like you, I am worried about the pervs tat I know ride the NY subway system.

Like the perv that ejaculated on the sleeping woman's face.

Oh I know-definitely not a safe practice by any means. Just pointing out that if a cute little kid comes up to sell me dog shit, I’d probably buy it.
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Why aren't they in school? You know, learning ENGLISH and how NOT to act like they are from some of the shittiest places on earth?

Might be on the weekends or after school. Sure hope they are not being “homeschooled”, like some of our shittiest-abusive parents, not the kids.