A Queens lady suspected of being the mother who deserted her new child at a Manhattan subway station was arrested and charged Wednesday, police mentioned.
Assa Diawara, 30, allegedly admitted to abandoning her new child — nonetheless together with her umbilical wire hooked up — on the thirty fourth Avenue-Penn Station cease in Midtown Monday morning, sources advised The Put up.
Diawara was arrested close to her house in Jamaica round 3 a.m. Wednesday and charged with abandonment of a kid and endangering the welfare of a kid.
The arrest got here a day after the NYPD launched video of the suspect strolling down the sidewalk holding a cloth-wrapped bundle in her arms close to the subway station shortly after 9 a.m. Monday.
The newborn was left on the bottom in a bundle of blankets on the 1 prepare platform, police mentioned.
Diawara was then picked up by a driver close to West thirty fourth Avenue round 9:22 a.m. — minutes earlier than the deserted toddler was reported to police — and was pushed again to Jamaica, sources mentioned.
The newborn, who was acutely aware and alert together with her umbilical wire nonetheless hooked up, was taken by police in a cruiser to Bellevue Hospital in steady situation.
Diawara was arrested after neighbors confirmed {that a} resident of 1 condominium constructing seemed to be the lady within the NYPD attraction, sources mentioned.
She confessed to birthing the child lady and leaving it on the prepare station, police sources mentioned.
Below New York State’s Deserted Toddler Safety Act, dad and mom can legally quit infants below 30 days previous anonymously and with out prosecution so long as the toddler is left with an acceptable particular person or location like a hospital or a staffed firehouse.
