In what can only be described as utterly heartbreaking, a Spanish woman has thrown her new born baby out of her kitchen window in Madrid.
After secretly giving birth on Christmas Eve, the woman then proceeded to cut her own umbilical cord and try and dispose of the baby without detection. The baby, although in a critical condition has survived the fall.
“The 35-year-old woman, who lived with her parents in eastern Madrid, was detained on suspicion of attempting to kill the baby, police said. “The woman wrapped the baby in a pair of jeans and threw it out of the kitchen window into an interior patio,” police said in a statement.
It is believed she kept the pregnancy a secret from both her friends and family. Her parents weren’t aware that she was either pregnant or about to give birth.
She cut the umbilical cord herself after giving birth in the early hours of the morning and then threw the child out of the kitchen window, about 2.2 metres above an interior patio, police said. However, shortly afterwards she suffered heavy bleeding and asked her parents to take her to hospital.
“Later, at about 8.30am, the grandmother of the newborn went into the kitchen and, looking out of the window, saw a baby in the patio. She ran out to pick it up and alerted emergency services,” police said.
In what can only be described as disturbing, two police officers arrived at the home to find the baby wrapped in blankets, suffering from hypothermia and without a heartbeat or regular breathing pattern. They managed to revive the baby and make it to the hospital.
The child has been described as being in a “serious condition” by Spanish authorities.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the newborn.
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Sorry, she's a murderer plain and simple. So many other choices she could have made, how many hundreds of parents would be desperate to love this little one? Lock her up, throw away the key.
Ah, the baby isn't dead.
Her intent was to murder. She threw a live baby out of a window. Not hard to draw the conclusion that she wanted the baby dead.
I think she wanted the baby to go away and was at a loss of what to do. Unless the baby dies, she isn't a murderer.
She cut the cord, wrapped the baby up and chose to throw it out of a window instead of placing it on a doorstep...of a church? A neighbour? She was coherent enough to do all of those things, but decided a cruel murder was better than anonymously placing the baby somewhere safe? Hard to have empathy when there was an alternative that didn't involve pain for this poor baby.
I don't think this woman was all ok mentally. A sane woman wouldn't dispose of a baby by throwing her into an INTERIOR patio. It just doesn't make sense.