Horror as American tourist, 18, throws newborn baby ‘with umbilical cord attached’ out of Paris hotel window to its death
A newborn baby died after an American tourist threw the infant out of a hotel window moments after giving birth, local police report.
The 18-year-old mother allegedly threw her baby from the second floor of an Ibis Style hotel ‘with the umbilical cord’, authorities said.
Emergency services took the baby to the Robert-Debre hospital after witnesses reported the harrowing scenes around 6am this morning.
The Paris prosecutor’s office told Le Parisien that the child did not survive the fall and succumbed to injuries.
An investigation has been opened for ‘homicide of a minor under 15,’ the city’s public prosecutor told the outlet.
The office said that the mother was ‘part of a group of young adults travelling in Europe’.
They said she had also been taken to hospital for an operation. She was taken into custody on site, the office said.
The baby was thrown from the second floor of ‘an Ibis Style hotel’ on Rue des Reglises in Paris
File photo. The American tourist was said to have thrown the baby from a hotel window in Paris
The tragedy was reported to have occurred at the hotel on Rue des Réglises, in the 20th arrondissement of the city.
The baby was taken to a hospital in the 19th arrondissement.
Witnesses were reportedly ‘alerted by screams’ before calling the emergency services, Paris Match reported this morning.
The baby was said to have been taken ‘in absolute emergency and with a life-threatening prognosis’ to the hospital before being declared dead.
‘The investigation is underway and the precise circumstances of this tragedy remain to be established,’ a person close to the case told the outlet.
