A
woman accused of tossing her newborn son to his death from a
fourth-floor window told police an 'evil spirit had taken over the
baby's body.'
Rashida
Chowdhury, 21, from Queens, New York is being held without bail after
her arrest late last week in the death of her month-old son, Rizwan.
Chowdhury
initially told detectives that she had been asleep in the bed with her
son and awoke to discover he was gone, but she later admitted she threw
him out the window, police said.
She
made the shocking admission to cops telling them that she thought the
baby had been possessed by an evil spirit and had been sick recently,
and she was 'stopping the pain.'
Apartment:
Rashida Chowdhury initially told detectives that she had been asleep in
the bed with her son and awoke to discover he was gone
Horrific: Chowdhury eventually came
clean with detectives and admitted that she threw her baby out of the
fourth floor window, pictured,
Crime scene: Investigators have
collected evidence and are trying to determine whether Chowdhury was
suffering from postpartum depression
The
baby had been hospitalized for three days with a viral infection, but
had been discharged the day before his death and was recovering,
officials said. He appeared to be in good health otherwise.
Investigators
were trying to determine whether Chowdhury suffered from postpartum
depression but no clinical diagnoses had been made.
Chowdhury's attorney didn't immediately respond to a message seeking comment on the accusations.
According to police at around 4 a.m. on August 7, Chowdhury quietly got up and brought the baby into the bathroom, police said.
A
neighbor heard 'an unusual noise, like a thump,' in the building's
courtyard, and when she looked through the window, she saw Rizwan in a
blue and white onesie, lying in a pool of blood, authorities said.
The
infant's father and other relatives were inside the Queens home but
didn't know what happened until they saw the body, police said.
Rizwan's father was in disbelief at what happened after Chowdhury was arrested telling The New York Daily News: 'She is just crazy.'
Injuries: The baby died from blunt impact injuries he sustained in the fall, according to the medical examiner's office
Shock: The infant's father and other
relatives were inside the Queens home but didn't know what happened
until they saw the body, police said
The baby died from blunt impact injuries he sustained in the fall, according to the medical examiner's office.
The
neighbor, Mazol Ilyayeva, told the Daily News of New York said the
father asked: 'Did you hear my baby cry when she threw him out of the
window?'
Queens District Attorney Richard Brown charged Chowdhury with murder. She was arraigned Saturday.
'This a truly horrific and disturbing case of a mother accused of killing her helpless infant son,' Brown said.
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