Ma: Please let my preg daughter out

A 19-year-old pregnant woman is due to give birth behind bars on Saturday — and her desperate mother is begging prison officials for her early release.

“She does not deserve to be in prison with all of those cases of the virus with that brand new baby,” the woman’s mom, Virginia, told the Daily News.

Virginia, who asked that her last name not be used, said her daughter has spent over eight months at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. According to her lawyers, the teen panicked and left the scene of a fatal accident.

“She made a mistake,” her mom said through tears. “She has no criminal history and she’s not a bad kid.”

“I’ve written [Gov.] Cuomo twice, I’ve written [Corrections Department] Acting Commissioner Anthony) Annucci three times,” she added. “I wrote 50 to 100 people … I kept calling everyone until a couple of weeks ago because I just ran out of people to call.”

Cuomo announced earlier this month that the state’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision would release some pregnant and postpartum women who are within six months of completing their sentences, and who have not committed a violent felony or sex offense.

Lawyers at The Legal Aid Society wrote a letter to Annucci April 28 demanding that the 19-year-old and nine other expectant mothers at Bedford Hills be released. Six of the 10 women are still there.

“Two weeks after [Cuomo’s] announcement … several such women remain incarcerated, including one about to give birth,” said Sophie Gebrselassie, staff attorney with the prisoners rights project at Legal Aid. “We do not know if it is bureaucratic incompetence, disingenuous interpretation of Cuomo’s direction, or simply the criminal justice system’s inhumane rigidity that is keeping these women locked up.”