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Police: Baby dies after being thrown from window by drunken relative
By Associated Press
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WARSAW, Poland -- A newborn baby girl died after being thrown from a third-story window in the Polish capital, apparently by a drunken relative, police said Tuesday.

The baby was found Monday night, with the umbilical cord still attached, on the sidewalk beneath her family's apartment block in Warsaw's gritty Praga district, police spokeswoman Monika Brodowska said.

Rescuers rushed the baby to the hospital with multiple injuries, but she died soon after, she added.

Police established that the girl had been thrown from a third-floor apartment, but the occupants refused to let them in. Firefighters were called to help officers get in from the balcony, Brodowska said.

Brodowska said officers found a 34-year-old woman in the apartment, identified as Aneta W. Her "state of health signaled that she had just given birth."

The woman was taken to a hospital. The other two people in the apartment - the woman's mother, Lidia L., and husband, Zbigniew W., 40, were both detained.

They were not identified by last name, in keeping with Polish privacy laws.

The death is being treated as a murder, said Renata Mazur, a spokeswoman for regional prosecutors.

All three adults had large amounts of alcohol in their blood and prosecutors are waiting for them to sober up before questioning them to determine who threw the child out the window, Mazur and Brodowska said.

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protohooman wrote on Jul 23, 2008 5:31 PM:

" ANIMALS "

MISSterious wrote on Jul 23, 2008 11:41 AM:

" Wait a minute...the umbilical cord was still attached? Geez....how in the world did it all play out, I wonder? "

ktlin wrote on Jul 23, 2008 7:34 AM:

" Could they all be so drunk that they would throw a baby out the window? And the others don't know who did it. Especially the one giving birth. One maybe. Not all. And think if the poor baby had lived. Sounds fishy to me. I think they should throw them all off the balcony. If they live fine. If not that is okay too. If they are drunk they won't even know it is happening anyway. "

Danser61701 wrote on Jul 22, 2008 5:37 PM:

" I wish I would have been there to catch the baby girl. I know someone who would love to have a baby and can't! How disgusting. "

Country Boy wrote on Jul 22, 2008 11:44 AM:

" the dumbing of poland continues... "

cats55ire wrote on Jul 22, 2008 11:32 AM:

" Poor little child - this is so sad!!!! "

JDUB wrote on Jul 22, 2008 11:10 AM:

" what an awful story "
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