A New York woman turned herself in after police released footage of her allegedly abandoning her newborn baby girl in a Bronx neighborhood.
Delfina Galvez, 26, surrendered to the New York Police Department on Dec. 30, a day after CCTV footage of her carrying a green tote bag — allegedly containing her newborn baby girl — was shown to the public. The baby was found early in the morning on Dec. 29 outside a private home. She was taken in by the resident and later brought to the hospital.
At about 6:00 a.m. on the morning the baby was found, Mamadou Hafiz Jallow, the man who lived at the apartment, received a call from a neighbor while he was at prayer services at a nearby mosque. He immediately returned home and brought the baby inside. Jallow spoke to WABC, a local ABC affiliate, about finding the baby girl, who was said to be just days old, “very nicely wrapped, properly wrapped” in blankets in the tote bag.
He said, “I called 911, it was cold, I put the baby inside, I didn’t want to mess with any evidence, but it was too cold, I had to take the baby from outside,” adding “It’s amazing, I never thought something like this would happen in my life, but you know it’s life.”