A newborn baby has been killed by his 18-year-old American mother in France, French authorities have said
The accused was said to have thrown the baby out of a hotel window with his umbilical cord still attached.
She threw the infant from the second-floor window of a hotel in the 20th arrondissement in eastern Paris, according to the prosecutor’s office.
“The newborn was given emergency care but did not survive,” prosecutors said.
The baby died at 7:45 am (0645 GMT) at the Robert Debre hospital, a police source told AFP.
Police received a distress call after an infant wrapped in a cloth, with its umbilical cord still attached, had been discovered in front of the hotel, the police source said.
The mother, an 18-year-old American student, had given birth in a room on the second floor of the hotel and then thrown her child out of the window, according to the source.
French officials said they had launched a murder investigation, adding that the young woman — who was “part of a group of young adults travelling in Europe” — had been taken into custody.
The mother was taken to hospital where she was to undergo treatment following her delivery, the prosecutor’s office reported.
Paris Match, citing its own information, reported the child’s mother was on a study trip to Paris with other students from the United States.
