American teen tourist fatally tosses newborn out of hotel window in Paris: police

An 18-year-old American tourist tossed her newborn out of the second-floor window of a Paris hotel Monday, killing the infant, authorities and reports say.

Screams erupted at the ibis Styles hotel in the city’s bohemian 20th arrondissement, or administrative district, around 6 a.m., according to Paris Match.

Police rushed to the scene and found the baby, who could not be revived, the outlet said.

The young mother was taken into custody at the budget hotel, the Paris prosecutor’s office told the outlet.

Authorities are investigating whether the horrific incident was a case of “denial of pregnancy,” in which a new mother is not aware she is pregnant till birth or is not able to accept she is pregnant, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement to Le Parisien.

The teen has only been identified as a US national who was part of a group of traveling young adults.

The case will be investigated as a homicide of a minor under the age of 15, according to the statement.