Jennifer Berry allegedly hid her pregnancy from her boyfriend, gave birth to the baby girl in his flat and then tossed her daughter out of the window - where she fell to her death.
Sources say the new mum initially claimed her girl had been stillborn - but an autopsy has revealed the baby died of blunt force injuries, meaning she had been born alive.
Police officers said they found the tragic infant with her umbilical cord still attached in the courtyard of a Bronx apartment building in New York on Monday afternoon.
They had responded to the building after receiving an emergency call that a child had fallen from a window.
Berry's boyfriend told police he was in another room when the baby was born and when the baby plunged from the window. He told investigators he didn't realise either event had occurred and had no idea his girlfriend was pregnant, officials said.
A resident in the apartment building, Fonzi Vucinaj, said his mother had found the baby on the courtyard's cement floor.
He said: "To be honest, I've never seen something so unhuman like that; I don't know what kind of mother would do that."
Another neighbour added: "We're all in shock. My heart is broken for that baby girl."
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