Update, 12:20 p.m., Jan. 13: Police now say they believe the children were pinched, not bitten. Updated story here.



A woman bit the faces of two children at a downtown Mountain View bookstore Thursday afternoon, police said.

At 1:02 p.m., a mother told police a woman attacked her two children inside the BookBuyers store at 317 Castro St., Mountain View police spokeswoman Liz Wylie said. The suspect walked up to the toddler and bit her cheek, then bit the cheek of the infant, Wylie said.

The suspect fled, but officers caught her at the Starbucks at 750 Castro St. The mother positively identified the suspect, Wylie said.

The suspect, 46-year-old Polly Beltramo, was arrested on suspicion of felony child abuse and will be transferred to county jail, Wylie said.

Both children were treated at the bookstore by fire department personnel and didn’t need to go to a hospital, she said.

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