Sleeping dad busted for leaving baby boy behind on Bronx subway

A baby boy was left alone in a Bronx subway station for more than an hour after the father forgot to bring the boy on the subway, according to police.

A good Samaritan found the tot, who was believed to be about 18 months old, at the Burnside Avenue train stop, which serves the 4 line, sometime between 3 and 3:45 a.m. and brought him to the 46 Precinct, according to the NYPD.

A short time later, police said the 27-year-old father frantically flagged down cops at 125th Street and Lenox Avenue, telling the officers he had fallen asleep after getting on the subway at 2 a.m. — and when he woke up, his baby was gone.

Cops eventually connected the father’s story to the baby found in University Heights and arrested the father on pending charges.

Police sources told The Post the father was believed to be intoxicated.

The baby boy was taken to Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center “out of an abundance of caution” but was fine, police said.

The panic-stricken mother, who cops had been trying to track down, showed up just after 10 a.m at the hospital in tears begging authorities to see her baby.

“Can I see my baby? Please I just want to touch him,” the mother pleaded with cops and a social worker.

The mother, who arrived with three other family members from Staten Island, told police the father had taken the baby to a party around 5 p.m. Saturday and his brother last heard from him sometime around 1 a.m.

“His brother drove him to the train with the baby and he was supposed to bring the baby back home but they never made it back,” she said. “So then the brother called [his mother] this morning.”

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