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Police seek person who abandoned baby in Hempstead

Nassau police want to know who abandoned a healthy newborn girl in the vestibule of a Hempstead apartment building late Sunday.

Wrapped in a yellow blanket, the girl now named Baby Hope was in a shoebox on the floor of the lobby at 5 Lafayette Ave. when a resident opened the front door and found her, police said. It was about 9:10 p.m.

She appeared to be less than a day old, police...

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