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A man who allegedly threatened to kill himself and his 2-year-old daughter after he abducted her yesterday morning ingested several pills and was found unconscious near the R7 train tracks in Germantown, police said.
The toddler is safe with her mother after being treated for minor scrapes at Albert Einstein Medical Center.
Police said the ordeal began near Belmont Plateau in Fairmount Park at about 10:45 a.m. when the man got into an argument with the mother of their daughter as they rode in her car. The two recently had broken up when he left her for another woman, who later dumped him, police said.
Yesterday, he tried to reconcile with the child's mother, police said, but was rejected, sending him into a rage.
He pulled the woman and her 11-year-old son from a previous relationship, who was in the back seat, out of the car and took off with the toddler still in the car, police said.
While on the road, he called the mother on her cell phone and threatened to kill himself and the baby, the mother told police. Police said the man then got out of the car at SEPTA's R7 Regional Rail line near Wister and Rufe streets and walked with his daughter along the tracks.
Witnesses heard the wails of a child and notified authorities, who found the man unconscious near the tracks with the tearful toddler lying on his chest, police said.
Both were taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition yesterday.
The man has been charged with kidnapping and recklessly endangering the welfare of a child. *
