Sep 14, 2009 3:31 am US/Eastern
Outrage: Baby Left On NYC Curb By Arguing Parents
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
There's shock and outrage on the Upper East Side Sunday night after a little girl, no more than 18 months old, was dumped on the curb next to a parking meter. Witnesses say that whoever left her there sped away.
"I'd say a year and a half, a beautiful child," witness Francesca Perrone-Vaquero said.
Police say the child got caught in the middle of an argument between her parents. Witnesses say the couple was in a white Mazda on First Avenue and 62nd Street. According to police, the angry mother got out of the car and walked away. The father apparently took the child out of the car, and left her in a stroller on the curb. He then drove away.
Perrone-Vaquero, owner of the nearby Espresso Caffe, saw the child and told CBS 2 that the little girl appeared healthy.
"They were taking a child and putting her inside the fire department ambulance," she said. "The carriage wasn't tied or anything, it could have gone in to the street, you think of all the horrible things."
The girl was brought to New York Presbyterian Hospital.
East Side residents hope authorities get justice for a girl wronged at such a tender, defenseless age.
Carlos Cruz, out for a stroll with son Matthew and daughter Isabella, was angry.
"Who could do such a thing in their right mind," Cruz said. "[It's] disturbing, so disturbing."
Both parents are now being held by police, and the New York City's Administration of Child Services says they are investigating.
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