Dwayne Jackson, 25, of Edison, was charged in Middlesex County on Thursday and is being held in prison on $750,000 bail.
Jackson is charged with one count of reckless endangering for leaving the child at a Shell gas station on South College Avenue in Newark, Delaware on February 21st.
Police say the girl was identified as Jackson's daughter after the toddler's photograph was published by the news media.
While police have said the girl is 20 months old, her name has not been released.
According to investigators, the girl was living with her mother in North Brunswick, N.J., and is currently in good health and is in the custody of the Division of Family Services in Delaware.
The identity of the child's mother is being withheld at this time due to the on-going nature of the investigation. Police in Monsey, N.Y., have said a woman whose burned body was found in a park is connected to the case. They did not say if she was the baby's mother.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Detective Michael McGinn of the North Brunswick Police Department at (732) 545-3200, or Investigator Paul Miller of the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office at (732) 745-4466.
On Wednesday, after police announced they had discovered the girl's identity, authorities announced the investigation about this child abandonment case had been shifted from Newark, Delaware to Middlesex County, New Jersey.
