A woman in the Bronx, New York, has been arrested for abandoning a newborn in a tote bag and leaving it on a city sidewalk in the early morning hours of December 29.
Surveillance footage shows 26-year-old Delfina Galvez leaving the bag with the baby inside on the sidewalk near a residential building, and then walking away.
A man who lives nearby told Local 12 he was contacted by a neighbor who alerted him that the sound of a crying baby was coming from the doorstep.
“My next door neighbor [called] me, who lives in this house here. He said ‘Jallow, there’s a baby crying at your door,'” explained Mamadou Hafiz Jallow. Jallow rushed home and found the infant in the bag. “When I [opened] the blanket I [saw] a little baby blinking, the eyes shaking, the fingers very cold,” he said.
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After finding the infant, Jallow called 911. The little girl, who appeared to be only a few days old, was rushed to the hospital and is said to be in stable condition.
Galvez turned herself into the police the day after the incident. She has been charged with reckless endangerment, acting in a manner injurious to a child, and abandonment of a child. Police did not offer a motive for the abandonment, but said Galvez was the baby’s mother, and she lived very near the spot where she left the child.
Like every state, New York has a ‘Safe Haven’ law that allows a parent to surrender their infant child if they feel unable to care for him or her. Rather than abandoning her infant on a city sidewalk, Galvez could have brought her to a hospital, staffed police station, or fire station and left the infant without fear of prosecution. New York’s Abandoned Infant Protection Act allows the safe surrender of infants up to 30 days after birth.
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