A 42-year-old mother from New York was arrested after she allegedly threatened to stab her 13-year-old daughter before abandoning the child at a closed convenience store in Pennsylvania .

Tonimarie A. Barrett was taken into custody over the weekend and charged with one count each of felony endangering the welfare of a child , making terroristic threats, and recklessly endangering another person, authorities announced.

According to a news release from the Pocono Township Police Department, at about 5:19 a.m. on Sunday, officers responded to a call regarding an abandoned child at a Turkey Hill convenience store in the 2700 block of Route 611 in Tannersville, Pennsylvania. First responders arrived at the establishment and located the child.

Investigators learned that the child and her moth

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