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.

Paris authorities arrested an American woman on Monday after she allegedly killed her newborn by hurling the child out of a second-floor window, according to reports.

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

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.

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,