Police Arrest Mother After Facebook Post Showed 9-Month-Old Baby Crawling On Busy Road

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Dave Lucas

Published March 12, 2018 at 5:00 AM EDT

Police in Central New York report arresting a woman after her 9-month-old baby was found crawling in a busy roadway.

Utica Police Department Lt. Bryan Coromato tells the Observer-Dispatch on Saturday officers watched the video, which shows good Samaritans stopping their cars to attend to the crying baby. One man picks up the child.

Passerby picks up baby found crawling on Bleecker Street in Utica, NY

Coromato says the child's 27-year-old mother told investigators the baby was in the back seat of the car when she left the area but "a short time later" looked back and didn't see her baby.

Police didn't identify the woman who had returned to the scene and was charged with endangering the welfare of a child.

The baby was taken to a hospital.

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Dave Lucas is WAMC’s Capital Region Bureau Chief. Born and raised in Albany, he’s been involved in nearly every aspect of local radio since 1981. Before joining WAMC, Dave was a reporter and anchor at WGY in Schenectady. Prior to that he hosted talk shows on WYJB and WROW, including the 1999 series of overnight radio broadcasts tracking the JonBenet Ramsey murder case with a cast of callers and characters from all over the world via the internet. In 2012, Dave received a Communicator Award of Distinction for his WAMC news story "Fail: The NYS Flood Panel," which explores whether the damage from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee could have been prevented or at least curbed. Dave began his radio career as a “morning personality” at WABY in Albany.

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