Infant girl dies after being thrown from sixth-floor window

An infant girl was thrown from a sixth-floor apartment window on Thursday in New York City, making her the third child to die that way in three months, the Associated Press reported.

Six-months-old Janillah Lawrence was thrown by her mother, Tenisha Fearon, 27, police said. Fearon was taken by police to a local hospital for an evaluation, then arrested on a murder charge.

Witnesses said Fearon made her intentions clear before throwing her daughter.

Neighbor Lizette Rodriguez said Fearon shouted, "I'm going to throw her. We're all gonna die!" In response, neighbors shouted to the woman, "Don't do it," Rodrgiuez said. While dialing 911, Rodriguez said she heard the baby hit the ground, AP reported.

Another witness, Gregorio Lopez, who lives next door, said he heard a man yelling, "Please, God. Please help us!" Lopez said he didn't want to leave his apartment because he didn't know what was happening but went to the roof after the man left. When he arrived he looked into his Fearon's window.

"I saw her naked and the three kids naked and I thought they were all dead," Lopez said. "And then she jumps up and starts hitting the window."

"I was yelling, 'Hurry up!'" he said. "I thought she was going to throw the rest."

The city's child welfare agency, the Administration for Children's Services, said it was investigating and was working to ensure the well-being of Fearon's three other children, a 10-year-old boy, an 8-year-old girl and a 3-year-old girl.

In September, a newborn girl with her umbilical cord attached was found dead outside an apartment building in the University Heights section of the borough. Authorities arrested her mother on murder and manslaughter charges, saying she hid her pregnancy and threw the child to her death from a seventh-story window shortly after giving birth.

In August, police arrested a Queens woman in connection with the death of her 1-month-old son. The woman told authorities an evil spirit had possessed the boy and she was "stopping the pain" when she threw him from a fourth-floor window.

Both women have pleaded not guilty.