Search for baby believed to have been tossed into NJ river by father is scaled back
By APFriday, February 19, 2010
Search for baby in NJ river scaled back
NEWARK, N.J. — State police in New Jersey are scaling back the search for a 3-month-old girl believed to have been thrown off a bridge by her father.
State police Sgt. Stephen Jones says units that were using side-scanning sonar in the Raritan River are wrapping up. He says the search will continue until dark Friday and then will be reassessed.
Police say 21-year-old Shamsid-Din Abdur-Raheem, of Galloway, told them he threw his daughter, Zara Malani-lin Abdur, off a Garden State Parkway bridge on Tuesday.
Abdur-Raheem has pleaded not guilty to charges including the attempted murder of the child’s maternal grandmother, whom police say he assaulted during the alleged abduction. The child’s mother had sought a restraining order against him.
