Photo by Adam Fagen.

Metro Transit Police said that a woman has been identified and charged with attempted abduction of a child in an incident yesterday on an Orange Line train.

The woman attempted to pull a two-year-old out of her stroller, but a fellow passenger successfully intervened to stop her. The suspect has been identified as Monique McKnight, 48.

Fellow rider Tara Young said the suspect was mumbling and had reached for the little girl. Young overheard the mom tell the woman not to touch her child, before the woman reached into the stroller and attempted to take the girl. “Out of nowhere, I saw this baby in the air, and a woman was screaming ‘my baby, my baby.’ ” said Brandon Carroll, who was in the car heading to work near Metro Center.

A large man pulled the woman off and a group of other riders helped restrain the suspect until the train pulled in to Foggy Bottom station. Young, who was communicating with the conductor over the emergency intercom, was dismayed that the transmission was unclear and the conductor didn’t provide updates to the frightened passengers.

“Once it was communicated to the operator, the operator was notifying police officers,” Metro spokesman Richard Jordan said. An officer who had been on a train headed in the other direction got off at the Foggy Bottom station two minutes later and was the first officer on the scene, he said.