Mum throws newborn baby from 7th-floor window - with umbilical cord still attached

A WOMAN has thrown her newborn baby out of a 7th-floor window - with the umbilical cord still attached.
Jennifer Berry allegedly hid her pregnancy from her boyfriend, gave birth to the baby girl in his flat and then tossed her daughter out of the window - where she fell to her death.
Sources say the new mum initially claimed her girl had been stillborn - but an autopsy has revealed the baby died of blunt force injuries, meaning she had been born alive.

Jennifer Berry is facing murder and manslaughter charges New York Times / Redux / eyevine

Cops have since arrested Berry, 33, on murder and manslaughter charges.
Police officers said they found the tragic infant with her umbilical cord still attached in the courtyard of a Bronx apartment building in New York on Monday afternoon.
They had responded to the building after receiving an emergency call that a child had fallen from a window.
Berry's boyfriend told police he was in another room when the baby was born and when the baby plunged from the window. He told investigators he didn't realise either event had occurred and had no idea his girlfriend was pregnant, officials said.

Newborn girl was thrown from this window in a New York apartment New York Times / Redux / eyevine

It was unclear how much time elapsed between the baby's birth and her fall from the window, they said.
A resident in the apartment building, Fonzi Vucinaj, said his mother had found the baby on the courtyard's cement floor.
He said: "To be honest, I've never seen something so unhuman like that; I don't know what kind of mother would do that."
Another neighbour added: "We're all in shock. My heart is broken for that baby girl."