13-Year-Old Girl Throws Newborn Out Of Window

A 13-year-old mother/child threw her 3-day-old baby out of her apartment window and into an alley where it lay for 14 hours with a fractured skull and broken ribs. The baby died and was deposited, in a basket, at the front steps of a Baptist church by the girls 15-year-old boyfriend.

According to the New York Times(You must be a subscriber to read the NYT full story):

The police said a 13-year-old girl and her 15-year-old boyfriend, who is the baby's father, had told them the girl had given birth to the baby in her bedroom sometime Friday. But the girl said she panicked when she could not quiet the baby's cries and she threw him out a window and into an alleyway behind her apartment. The child lay in the cold alley for 14 hours, until the boyfriend arrived on Friday night and learned what had happened, the police said.

The police said the teenagers told them that the boyfriend wrapped the baby in some towels, placed him in a "Happy Birthday" gift bag and left him on the stoop of the Second Prince of Peace Baptist Church at 464 East 183rd Street, a few blocks from the girl's home.

It amazes me that in the year 2004 atrocities like this still happen in the United States. So many states have open adoptions and some even allow a mother to drop her child off at a hospital without repercussion. It is sad that the lack of education and information would lead a young mother to murder her own child. If only the boyfriend would have placed the baby in a basket and taken it to the church before the mother tossed it out the window.

H/T to Digger for the story.

SlagleRock Out!

Posted by SlagleRock at January 20, 2005 11:00 AM