By LARA MOSCRIP and JAMIE SCHRAM
May 13, 2008
Police were searching last night for this woman, who they believe is the mom who abandoned her newborn girl at the doorstep of a Queens minister on Mother's Day, officials said.
The infant was found wrapped in a blanket next to a black, nylon handbag filled with diapers and formula. Kristina Yu was with a friend outside her Flushing home shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday when she heard cries.
At first, she thought it was a wounded animal. Yu asked her friend to check, and they made the shocking discovery.
"We both ran upstairs and I screamed, 'Dad, someone left baby at the doorway,' " said Yu, 24.
Yu's father, Kenny, is pastor of the Living Stone Church in Corona.
The minister called 911, and police rushed the baby from the Holly Avenue home to Flushing Hospital.
Sources said the girl was born Friday to someone who gave her name as Enya Zheng at New York Hospital Queens, where the surveillance photo was made at 8:20 that night. Cops traced the mother via a plastic hospital bracelet still wrapped around the baby's wrist.
But police were having trouble finding the woman because she may not have given the hospital her real name.
A Flushing Hospital spokesman, Michael Hinck, said the girl showed no signs of abuse.
Yu said she was relieved to hear the baby - wrapped in a white blanket with pink and blue stripes - was in good hands.
"I was very careful holding her," Yu said.
"I love kids. I was trying to tell my dad, 'Let's adopt it.' But I'm still a student."
Yu's friend Kaden, who asked that his last name not be printed, said, "My first thought was to get the baby inside because it was cold. I was worried."
