Police search for man who allegedly abandoned baby in New York’s Times Square
The Guardian • • nation
Key Points:
- A six-month-old baby girl was found unharmed and alert in a stroller in Times Square on Tuesday night; police are searching for the father, who is believed to frequent the area.
- New York law allows parents to safely relinquish infants under 30 days old at designated safe locations, but parents of older infants are advised to contact child services.
- The incident follows heightened concerns over child safety after a seven-month-old baby was fatally shot in a gang-related shooting in Brooklyn earlier this month, leading to murder charges against two men.
- New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani condemned the recent violence against children, emphasizing that such violence must not be normalized.
- Over the weekend, a mass shooting in Louisiana killed eight children aged three to 11, with the perpetrator, Shamar Elkins, a former National Guard member, also killed by police; this was the deadliest mass shooting in the US so far this year.
