The New York City Police Department is searching for a man they accuse of abandoning a 1-year-old girl in a stroller in Times Square.
Authorities said the baby was found conscious, alert and unharmed in the stroller at about 11 p.m. Tuesday, according to ABC News. She was taken to a hospital as a precaution after being found.
Unnamed law enforcement sources told the New York Post that the suspect is the girl’s father and that he and the girl’s mother got into an argument on the city’s subway earlier Tuesday.
After the spat, the two went their separate ways, with the suspect taking the stroller and the baby, according to the Post.
Video footage near where the baby was found shows a man wearing a dark jacket and jeans pushing the stroller to a spot near a GAP clothing store and leaving the stroller with the baby inside, according to WNBC.
The police have since interviewed the mother of the baby and are investigating the father for custodial interference, according to New York’s Daily News.
Authorities said the father, who they have not named publicly, is a homeless man known to hang around the Times Square area, according to ABC News.
The baby is in the custody of the New York City Administration for Children’s Services, according to the Daily News.
