Couple Abandons Baby In Stroller On UES Sidewalk

Yesterday afternoon, passers-by and workers around First Avenue and 62nd Street noticed a baby in a stroller—without an adult in sight. It turns out the toddler, no more than 18 months old, was apparently abandoned by her parents (or the couple caring for her); WCBS 2 reports, "Police say the child got caught in the middle of an argument between her parents," who were in a white Mazda. "The angry mother got out of the car and walked away. The father apparently took the child out of the car, and left her in a stroller on the curb. He then drove away." A restaurant owner said, "The carriage wasn't tied or anything, it could have gone in to the street, you think of all the horrible things." According to the Post, police responded to the scene after receiving numerous 911 calls (a woman was holding and comforting the baby when they got there) and are tracing "the little girl’s parents from a cash receipt left in the bag containing the goods... The receipt showed that a pair of baby shoes had recently been bought from the H&M store in the Queens Boulevard mall." Also not good: Leaving your baby in a stroller outside the restaurant where you are eating. Update: NY1 reports that the child's father, Edwin Rivera, has been arrested and faces charges of child abandonment and endangering the welfare of a child.

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By Jen Chung in News on September 14, 2009 9:25 AM

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Barbj8

If it was cute I would have kept it and sold the stroller on Ebay.

Clarice City

They probably have eight more where that came from.

NannyState

Strollers?

DownandoutNYC

How Danish of them.

NannyState

I bet they left the child in an upscale area believing that the Rich Fairy would carry it off to a penthouse and nurse it with T-bills.

farleft

Poor kid. The authorities should have known these parents don't care for the child the moment they bought the kid H&M shoes. Talk about negligence.

Wza

Another dumbass in the city.

Dirk

The parental rights of these jackasses should be immediately revoked.

hotstepper

that baby was totally asking for it.

Trilby16

When I was a baby, my mom used to leave me asleep in my carriage outside the local supermarket in the city, with the other babies, while she shopped. She says this was normal. Yes, I am very old....

Just sayin'.

whitecastlerock

Is there a description of these lowlives? We know they drive a white Mazda. That isn't very helpful...

americaonline

Stu Price: So, uh, are you sure you're qualified to be taking care of that baby?

Alan Garner: What are you talking about? I've found a baby before.

Stu Price: You found a baby before? Where?

Alan Garner: Coffee Bean.