Bronx mom who left baby in tote bag on street surrenders, charged with abandonment

The mother of a newborn girl who left the infant in a tote bag outside a Bronx neighbor’s home turned herself in to cops and has been charged with abandonment, police said Tuesday.

Delfina Galvez, 28, surrendered at the 46th Precinct stationhouse Monday after cops began a full-court press search for her.

She left her baby wrapped in blankets in a reusable tote bag outside a brick house on Rev. James A. Polite Ave. near E. 167th St. in East Tremont early Sunday, according to cops.

A neighbor soon saw the bag and heard crying and police were notified in a 5:59 a.m. 911 call.

“I didn’t want to mess up any evidence, but it was too cold,” Mamadou Hafiz Jallow told PIX11. “I picked up the baby [and] put it inside the house where it was warm.”

Believed to be only about five days old, the girl was taken by medics to Jacobi Medical Center and is in stable condition.

New York’s Abandoned Infant Protection Act allows people to anonymously abandon a baby up to 30 days old, but only if the infant is left at a safe place like a hospital or firehouse and only if someone is notified.

Cops released surveillance footage Monday of the woman who left the baby and asked the public’s help identifying her and tracking her down. In the video she’s seen wearing a surgical face mask and carrying a green tote bag as she walks down a rain-swept sidewalk.

Galvez turned out to live just down the block from where she left her child, police said.

Cops charged her with abandonment of a child, reckless endangerment and acting in a manner injurious to a child.

Her arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court was pending Tuesday.