A 17-year-old Queens mom vanished with her 1-year-old daughter after a family dispute – and both haven’t been seen since a weekend appearance at a popular park, cops and sources said.
Maria Castro Escalante, 17, got into a dispute with her own mother before she took off with little Catalina Escalante, 1, police sources said.
They were last spotted around 9 p.m. Monday inside Flushing Meadows Corona Park, about 3 miles away from their home, authorities said.
The NYPD released a photo Tuesday night of the runaway teen mom holding her daughter in her arms.
Maria is described as about 5-foot-1 and 180 pounds, last seen wearing a black dress and black shoes.
Her baby daughter was last seen wearing a pink shirt and a diaper.
Both were still nowhere to be found Wednesday.
No criminality was immediately suspected in their disappearance.
Anyone with information on the missing mom and daughter is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crimestoppers website at or on X @NYPDTips.
