Queens woman IDs mom who dumped newborn at door
BY TANANGHACHI MFUNI, ALISON GENDAR and TAMER EL-GHOBASHY
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Updated Tuesday, May 13th 2008, 1:55 AM


Surveillance camera caught mother, an immigrant from China, being wheeled out of hospital following birth of girl last week. She abandoned the infant on a Queens doorstep.
The woman who found an abandoned 3-day-old girl on her Queens doorstep on Mother's Day evening knows the mother and believes she left the newborn with her for safekeeping.

The young mother - an immigrant from China - told nurses at the hospital before she gave birth that she could not take care of the baby and could not go back to China with a little girl in tow, a police source said.

Kristina Yu, 24, found the 7-pound, 8-ounce newborn as she was leaving her second-floor apartment on Holly Ave. in Flushing about 10 p.m. on Sunday.

She later recognized a photo of the mother taken by hospital surveillance cameras.

"She has a son, and I used to watch her son," Yu told the Daily News, adding that the woman sent her boy back to China because she could not care for him financially. "She knows how much I like kids so that's why she probably did it."

She said her father, Kenny Yu, a Presbyterian pastor, recognized the woman as a former member of his Corona congregation who disappeared about three months ago.

Yu said she was surprised the woman left the baby because no one knew she was pregnant.

"I don't know what her state of mind is. I don't know if she had intentions of completely abandoning her baby," Yu said. "She's actually a very kindhearted woman; she's not cold-hearted like that."

The mom gave New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens a fake name, and cops were working yesterday to learn her identity, the police source said. She also gave the Yus a fake name.

Yu found the baby wrapped in a hospital blanket in the space between her front door and storm door, next to a black bag filled with diapers and baby formula. The hospital bracelet was still on the newborn's wrist.

Yu and a friend picked up the newborn and took her upstairs into her family's home and called police.

"If I only knew it was her baby, if there was a note saying take care of him for a few days, maybe it would be different," Yu said.

The infant, who is in good health at Flushing Hospital, will be released to the custody of Administration for Children's Services when she is keep your legs closed or have your tubes tied


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