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VIDEO: Drivers find 9-month-old baby crawling in busy street, mother charged

UTICA, NEW YORK — A mother in upstate New York has been charged with child endangerment after a group of strangers found her 9-month-old baby crawling in the middle of a busy roadway.

A video posted to Facebook by Rn Ray shows the infant on his belly in the middle of Bleecker Street in Utica, New York with drivers surrounding him and attempting to call 911.

“Baby in the street. That’s what we do in Utica now,” says the person recording the video.

As one of the drivers scoops the baby up to safety, 27-year-old Ledrika Ford rushes over screaming: “That’s my baby! Oh my God!”

According to Fox News, police launched an investigation when the video was brought to their attention. Ford says she was driving with a relative and that the baby was secured in the backseat of her car. When she looked back, the baby was gone. That's when she turned the car around.

The original video has already racked up over 2 million views.

All four of Ford’s children have been removed from her home and are in child protective services. She’s scheduled to appear in court on March 23.

(VIDEO)

How you gone leave a baby in the middle of the fucking road yo THIS IS UTICA SHIT 😡 Shit really broke my heart seeing that baby there foreal 💔 i want everyone to see this all over the media so please share this around so when ever that mother comes across this she can see that the pain of that lil lost baby who was freezing and lonely and scared cuz she wasn’t there ... i don’t care what the problem was or how it happen main rule is to never leave your child’s side at a baby stage like that never ❗️❗️❗️💯💯💯

Posted by Rn Jay on Friday, March 9, 2018

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