Police have laid charges after a woman was accused of beating a fellow TTC passenger using a 3-year-old child as a weapon.

Police said they have also identified the child and they believe the suspect is the child’s mother.

Police said a woman, in her 30s, boarded the streetcar last Friday around 5 p.m. with a little girl in a stroller and got into an altercation with another passenger. The woman picked up the child and started hitting the other passenger with the child, police said.

When other passengers intervened, the woman pulled one of them by the hair, police said.

The incident occurred after the woman boarded the streetcar at Dundas St. E. and Parliament St. Police received the call when the streetcar was near Broadview Ave.

The woman got off the streetcar with the child before police arrived.

Police said the young girl’s parents are separated. Child Services was contacted and the child is now with her father.

The woman, who is not being named to protect the identity of the child, has been charged with assault with a weapon, along with two other counts of assault. She turned herself in to police Thursday.

She is scheduled to appear at College Park court Aug. 8.

With files from Sarah Ratchford