18-year- old on school trip in Paris throws own newborn out of window

An 18-year old student from the United States on a study trip to Paris threw her newly born child with umbilical cords still attached outside a window in a hotel in Paris, French prosecutors have said.

She threw the infant from the second-floor window of a hotel in the 20th arrondissement in eastern Paris, the prosecutor’s office said.

“The newborn was given emergency care but did not survive,” prosecutors said.

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The baby died at 7:45 am (0645 GMT) at the Robert Debre hospital, a police source told AFP.

Police had been alerted 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.

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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.