(12/15/06) MINEOLA ? Nassau County police have arrested a nanny and accused her of murdering her own newborn baby boy and leaving his body in a Hicksville train station trash bin.

Police arrested 34-year-old Erma Stephens, who works as a nanny in Woodbury, at 9:25 p.m. Thursday. Investigators say Stephens smothered the newborn in her Brooklyn apartment, placed the baby in a shoebox, wrapped everything in a white plastic bag and left the boy at the train station on November 27. A commuter later found the child.

According to police, Stephens killed the child to hide her out-of-wedlock pregnancy from peers. They say surveillance video and information obtained from a store linked to the shoebox led to Stephens? arrest. She is charged with second-degree murder. The baby, named Nicholas Hope by the AMT Children of Hope Foundation, was buried last week.

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