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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

An American woman is in police custody in France after a tragic incident involving her newborn baby. On Monday (February 24), authorities reported that a newborn baby was thrown from a second-floor window of a hotel in Paris.