New York Daily News

Baby-dump ma rants in Qns. court

- BY IRENE SPEZZAMONT­E AND RICH SCHAPIRO

A woman accused of handing her infant daughter to a stranger after an auto accident had a car wreck of a court appearance Wednesday.

Malikah George, 24, lost her cool and had to be escorted out of a Queens courtroom, a source told the Daily News.

“I am not a Queens b---h! I am a Bronx b---h,” George screamed, the source said.

It was not clear what prompted the outburst from George, who later pleaded guilty to reckless endangerme­nt. The courthouse antics came two months after she crashed her car into a school in Ozone Park and handed her year-old daughter to a female bystander. George told police that she was behind the wheel, unlicensed and uninsured, trying to learn to drive when a driver with a gun began chasing her, prosecutor­s said.

"I am going through red lights, in and out of traffic. It was like cops and robbers," she told cops.

George said she lost control of her Honda and slammed into a light pole in Ozone Park.

George handed her little girl to a woman she didn't know along with a note that listed the name and phone number of the baby's dad, prosecutor­s said.

“A woman comes up to me and says, ‘Let me help you,' and I hand the baby to her and ran away,” she told police, according to the criminal complaint.

“I don't have a driver's licence (or) car insurance, and the car is not registered. I know I'm going to get arrested," she said.

George was charged with several child endangerme­nt and traffic violations but .

will be spared jail time if she completes therapy, parenting classes and a driving course.

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