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hrmjustin

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Mon Mar 24, 2014, 11:47 AM Mar 2014

Parents of Harlem abandoned baby in custody

Eyewitness News
HARLEM (WABC) -- Detectives are questioning the parents of an infant found abandoned in a Harlem park Sunday night.

The infant was placed inside a stroller and left behind on West 143rd Street across from a firehouse.

New York state has a Safe Haven law which protects parents from prosecution if they leave an infant less than 30 days old at a hospital, police station or fire house. But the law does not apply leaving a baby in the cold across the street from a fire house.

That's what happened around 9 p.m. Sunday across from Engine 69/Ladder 28. And now, after tracking down the child's mother and father, charges are pending.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9477264

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