An 18-year-old American student is suspected of throwing her newborn baby out of a third-floor hotel window, Paris prosecution sources told CBS News.

The Paris prosecutor’s office said the infant was given emergency medical care, but did not survive. An American woman was being held in police custody in Paris on Monday following the death of a newborn baby, who was thrown from the window of a hotel in the 20th arrondissement, authorities said.

The infant reportedly still had the umbilical cord attached after being thrown from a second-floor window as prosecutors say a case is now open for 'homicide of a minor under 15'

An 18-year-old American in Paris is in French custody after reportedly throwing her newborn baby out of a hotel room window.

An 18-year-old American student is suspected of throwing her newborn baby out of a third-floor hotel window, Paris prosecution sources told CBS News.

American under arrest in Paris for chucking baby ‘with the umbilical cord’ outside hotel windowSource An onlooker recorded the dramatic incident at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Feb.

The American was taken to a hospital for a post-delivery operation where she was placed in custody, according to the Paris Prosecutor’s Office.

An American woman is in police custody in France after a tragic incident involving her newborn baby. On Monday (February 24), authorities reported that a newborn baby was thrown from a second-floor window of a hotel in Paris.