The American teen suspected of throwing her baby from the window of an Ibis Styles hotel in Paris was part of a group of young people touring Europe with EF Gap Year

A US teenager has been arrested in Paris after her newborn baby was allegedly thrown out of a hotel window and died, prosecutors and French media say.

Paris prosecutors are investigating the death of a newborn baby that was thrown out of a hotel window in the city.

The baby, thrown from a second-floor window, was found alive in a nearby trash can and then rushed to a hospital, but it could not be saved, authorities said.

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.

A young American woman on a European trip was taken into custody after she allegedly threw a newborn out of a hotel window in Paris.

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.