Mother Arrested After Baby Abandoned at Penn Station

Assa Diawara, 30, was taken into custody early Wednesday in Queens on charges of abandonment of a child and endangering the welfare of a child, police said, after a newborn girl was found wrapped in a blanket on the southbound 1 platform at 34th Street-Penn Station during Monday’s rush hour. The infant was hospitalized in stable condition, which New York City Transit President Demetrius Crichlow called "the miracle on 34th Street." Investigators used surveillance footage to track Diawara to Jamaica, Queens; a neighbor recognized her, and police said she admitted abandoning her daughter when confronted Tuesday.

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