MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) -- The 30-year-old mother of a baby girl found abandoned at Penn Station in Midtown earlier this week has been arrested.

Assa Diawara was located in Queens just before 3 a.m. on Wednesday and arrested by police.

She is facing charges of abandonment of a child and endangering the welfare of a child. She expected to appear in court sometime Wednesday.

Police released a photo of her carrying the baby who was found at Penn Station on Monday.

An anonymous tip led police to the child at the station on W. 34th Street and 7th Avenue just before 9:30 a.m. The baby girl was found wrapped in a blanket at the bottom of a staircase leading to the 1/2/3 train platform.

Police say surveillance video shows Diawara outside Penn Station. They followed a trail of several v

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