{"id":12017,"date":"2025-10-22T14:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/12017\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:35:11","slug":"woman-arrested-for-abandoning-newborn-daughter-on-subway-platform-at-nyc-penn-station-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/12017\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested for abandoning newborn daughter on subway platform at NYC Penn Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A woman has been arrested for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/10\/20\/newborn-baby-abandoned-on-rush-hour-subway-platform-in-manhattan-penn-station\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:abandoning her newborn;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">abandoning her newborn <\/a>daughter on a rush hour subway platform at Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan, police said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Assa Diawara, 30, was nabbed late Tuesday for allegedly leaving the infant at the foot of a staircase on the downtown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mta.info\/maps\/subway-line-maps\/1-line\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:No. 1 train platform;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">No. 1 train platform<\/a> at the 34th St.-Penn Station stop about 9 a.m. Monday. The baby is her daughter, police sources said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NYPD detectives conducting an exhaustive search of surveillance footage in Midtown captured images of Diawara bringing the newborn into Penn Station and then leaving without her, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Surveillance video showed Diawara getting into a Cadillac livery cab to Jamaica, Queens, where she was dropped off. Cops canvassed that area and a neighbor recognized her from the surveillance footage and directed police to her home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When questioned by cops, Diawara admitted to abandoning her daughter in Penn Station, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Diawara was charged with abandonment of a child and child endangerment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She was awaiting arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She was caught on surveillance video wearing a red head scarf, pink pants, glasses, and a multi-colored top that might be a hospital gown as she took the baby, who was wrapped in a blanket and cradled in her arms, down into the train station, cops say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Commuters found the baby alone on the subway steps moments later and called the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Medics took the newborn, whose umbilical cord was still attached, to <a href=\"https:\/\/nychealthandhospitals-appservice-east-us.azurewebsites.net\/locations\/bellevue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bellevue Hospital;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bellevue Hospital<\/a> where she was in good health and undergoing an evaluation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cops <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/10\/21\/pics-released-of-woman-wanted-for-abandoning-newborn-on-subway-platform-in-nyc-penn-station\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:released surveillance images;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">released surveillance images<\/a> of the suspect on Tuesday and asked the public\u2019s help identifying her and tracking her down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been arrested for abandoning her newborn daughter on a rush hour subway platform at Penn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9546,9455,9547,9545,3412,9,9549,56,63,65,64,7968,9548,9544],"class_list":["post-12017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-abandoning","tag-assa-diawara","tag-daughter","tag-manhattan-criminal-court","tag-midtown-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-newborn","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-penn-station","tag-police-sources","tag-surveillance-footage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}