Prosecutor: Mom tossed baby from fourth-floor window | Inquirer News

Prosecutor: Mom tossed baby from fourth-floor window

/ 01:01 PM August 09, 2015

AFP FILE PHOTO

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NEW YORK, United States — A newborn baby was killed when his mother tossed him from a fourth-floor window of their New York City apartment building and he landed on courtyard pavement 40 feet (12 meters) below, a prosecutor said Saturday in announcing her arrest on a murder charge.

Rashida Chowdhury, 21, was awaiting arraignment a day after 3-week-old Rizwan Ahmad was found dead in a onesie on the barren courtyard of the building in the borough of Queens.

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“This is a truly horrific and disturbing case,” Queens chief prosecutor Richard Brown said. “The alleged actions of the defendant are totally incomprehensible.”

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Medical examiners ruled the baby’s death a homicide, saying he died of blunt impact injuries and had suffered skull fractures and lacerations to his brain, liver and spleen.

Neighbor Mazol Ilyayeva told reporters she heard something fall around 4 a.m. Friday and then saw the child’s lifeless, bloody body in the courtyard.

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“I couldn’t move. I couldn’t scream,” she said. “I couldn’t even look. … It’s horrible.”

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She said the parents had seemed stricken as they stood in the courtyard afterward.

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“The mom was holding the husband,” Ilyayeva said. “Their faces were blank.”

It was unclear if Chowdhury had a lawyer who could comment on the charges; no telephone number could immediately be found for her Queens apartment.

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