NEW YORK (WABC) -- The woman charged with abandoning her baby at the 34th St. subway station appeared in court overnight where she was granted supervised release.

Assa Diawara will return to court in December, facing charges of abandonment of a child and child endangerment.

Someone reported seeing a "wrapped bundle" at the bottom of a staircase and, upon closer inspection, realized it was an infant, according to the criminal complaint.

The umbilical cord was still attached, indicating the baby had likely been born within a few hours of abandonment.

Police said Diawara was caught on surveillance footage showing a woman wearing glasses, pink pants, a geometric patterned top, a red/maroon headscarf, and brown shoes carrying something in her arms that appeared to be wrapped in blankets,

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