Queens mom arrested, allegedly admits to leaving newborn at NYC subway station

A Queens woman suspected of being the mom who abandoned her newborn at a Manhattan subway station was arrested and charged Wednesday, police said.

Assa Diawara, 30, allegedly admitted to abandoning her newborn — with her umbilical cord still attached — at the 34th Street-Penn Station stop in Midtown Monday morning, sources told The Post.

Diawara was arrested near her home in Jamaica around 3 a.m. Wednesday and charged with abandonment of a child and endangering the welfare of a child…

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