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.

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.

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

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.

Paris: A newborn baby died in Paris Monday after his 18-year-old American mother threw him out a hotel window, umbilical cord still attached, French prosecutors and a police source said. She threw the infant from the second-floor window of a hotel in the 20th arrondissement in eastern Paris,

"The newborn was treated urgently but did not survive," the Paris prosecutor's office said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE of the Feb. 24 incident