A mother dropped her six-month-old baby from the balcony of her second-story apartment in Brooklyn (NYC).
Miraculously the newborn survived, but was hospitalized in critical condition. critical at Maimonides Medical Center, police said. The authorities arrived at the scene in 1870 51st St. and 19 th Ave. in the Mapleton neighborhood around 4: 50 am Thursday and were greeted by the baby’s father.
The unidentified man told officers that he was sleeping when the mother woke him up to tell them that she had dropped the child from the balcony, police said. The 29-year-old woman also made inconsistent statements about “sacrificing,” first responders told NYPD , according to ABC News.
The mother was taken to New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. “People just break down. She is being psychologically evaluated,” a medical professional told Daily News as she left the house last night.
A neighbor on the third floor who did not give his name described the parents as a “good family”. “She is a good mother with three children. Something bad must have happened to him. My mother asked me to pray for them.”
Detectives are investigating whether the baby was a victim of child abuse and interviewed both parents on Thursday. As of Thursday night no one had been charged with any crime.
In a similar case, in October 2020 a young mother aged 19 admitted to throwing her baby for a window 5 feet high, hours after giving birth at her home in Queens (NYC).
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