A woman has been arrested for abandoning her newborn daughter on a rush hour subway platform at Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan, police sources said Wednesday.

Assa Diawara, 30, was nabbed late Tuesday for allegedly leaving the infant at the foot of a staircase on the downtown No. 1 train platform at the 34th St.-Penn Station stop about 9 a.m. Monday.

Diawara was arrested near her home in Jamaica, Queens, and charged with abandonment of a child, police sources said. The baby is her daughter, police sources said.

She was awaiting arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court Wednesday.

She was caught on surveillance video wearing a red head scarf, pink pants, glasses, and a multi-colored top that might be a hospital gown as she took the baby, who was wrapped in a blanket and cradled in

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