A former child welfare worker who threw her newborn baby girl to her death from a sixth-storey window has been arrested on murder and manslaughter charges, police have said.
Officers found the infant with her umbilical cord still attached in a courtyard of her boyfriend's Bronx apartment on Monday.
An autopsy revealed the baby girl died from blunt force injuries, chief medical examiner Dr Barbara Sampson said.
The baby's death has been ruled a homicide, meaning she had been born alive.
Jennifer Berry, 33, from Yonkers, is being held in police custody over her death.
Her boyfriend told police he was in another room when the baby was born and when the child fell from the window.
He told investigators he did not realise either event had occurred and had no idea his girlfriend was pregnant.
Officials said it was unclear how much time elapsed between the baby's birth and her fall from the window.
CCTV captured part of the girl's fall from the building at 130 West 183rd Street.
NYPD Detective Annette Markowski told Sky News a 911 call was made at 2.40pm on Monday.
She said: "Officers observed a female infant unconscious and unresponsive at the rear of the address.
"EMS responded and found the infant DOA (dead on arrival) at the scene."
Neighbour Sammy Batista told the New York Daily News: "The baby look like it was new.
"It was on the floor covered in blood. It hurt my heart."
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