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02-17-2010, 03:57 PM
NJ Man Kidnaps, Tosses 3-Month-Old Daughter Over Bridge Into River
By SHELLEY NG
wpix.com
February 17, 2010
SAYREVILLE, N.J. (WPIX) - A desperate search continues Wednesday for three-month-old whose father, New Jersey police say, kidnapped then threw her into a freezing river.
East Orange police say they found Shamshiddin Abdur-Raheem, 21, at a relative's house in the Sicklerville section of Winslow Township after 8 p.m. Tuesday. There was no sign of his daughter Zara Malani-Lin Abdur-Raheem.
When he was questioned about the whereabouts of the infant, whom police say he abducted earlier in the day, he said he threw her over the Driscoll Bridge and into the Raritan River while driving southbound on the Garden State Parkway.
The toll bridge goes over the Raritan River and connects Sayreville and Woodbridge. Its location is just across from Staten Island, on the other side of the Raritan Bay.
Police say Abdur-Raheem kidnapped his daughter from at an apartment on South Harrison Street in East Orange at 4:19 p.m. following an argument with the girl's grandmother.
He allegedly punched the elderly woman in the face and ripped the girl from her arms, says East Orange Police Sgt. Andrew Dielmo.
Abdur-Raheem fled the apartment in a van with his daughter in tow. Zara was last seen wearing green pajamas.
Dielmo says that while Abdur-Raheem is the biological father of the infant, he does not have custody rights. He and the child's mother are not married.
An Amber Alert was issued for Zara.
By SHELLEY NG
wpix.com
February 17, 2010
SAYREVILLE, N.J. (WPIX) - A desperate search continues Wednesday for three-month-old whose father, New Jersey police say, kidnapped then threw her into a freezing river.
East Orange police say they found Shamshiddin Abdur-Raheem, 21, at a relative's house in the Sicklerville section of Winslow Township after 8 p.m. Tuesday. There was no sign of his daughter Zara Malani-Lin Abdur-Raheem.
When he was questioned about the whereabouts of the infant, whom police say he abducted earlier in the day, he said he threw her over the Driscoll Bridge and into the Raritan River while driving southbound on the Garden State Parkway.
The toll bridge goes over the Raritan River and connects Sayreville and Woodbridge. Its location is just across from Staten Island, on the other side of the Raritan Bay.
Police say Abdur-Raheem kidnapped his daughter from at an apartment on South Harrison Street in East Orange at 4:19 p.m. following an argument with the girl's grandmother.
He allegedly punched the elderly woman in the face and ripped the girl from her arms, says East Orange Police Sgt. Andrew Dielmo.
Abdur-Raheem fled the apartment in a van with his daughter in tow. Zara was last seen wearing green pajamas.
Dielmo says that while Abdur-Raheem is the biological father of the infant, he does not have custody rights. He and the child's mother are not married.
An Amber Alert was issued for Zara.