16-Year-Old Nebraska Girl Allegedly Threw Newborn Baby Out Window to Its Death, Charged as Adult

A 16-year-old from Omaha, Nebraska, has been charged as an adult in the Sept. 30 death of her newborn baby, who was allegedly thrown from a second story apartment building window, the Omaha Police Department said in a news release. 

Antonia Lopez has been booked into the Douglas County Youth Center on one count of felony child abuse resulting in death, the release states. It was not immediately clear whether Lopez had entered a plea or retained an attorney. 

The Douglas County Attorney did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment. 

Officers were dispatched to the Kellom Knolls apartment complex in downtown Omaha on Friday at 4:12 a.m. after Lopez's mother called 911 to report that an infant had been thrown from an apartment window, the release states. 

Omaha Fire paramedics allegedly found an adult female holding and administering CPR to an infant in the parking lot of the complex upon arrival, according to the news release. 


The infant was transported to the Creighton University Medical Center and pronounced dead shortly after arrival. 
According to police, Lopez was allegedly alone in her bedroom in the apartment when she went into premature labor, the release states. She gave birth to the baby early Friday morning, and, allegedly, shortly after threw the child out of the apartment's second story window. 

At 3:40 a.m. on Friday, a Facebook post on Lopez's account reads, "Who can do me a huge favor and has a car?" 

Afterwards, she allegedly told her mother what had happened, police said. It was then, according to the news release, that Lopez' mother went outside to try to resuscitate the baby and called 911. 

Police said that the investigation is ongoing and "in the early stages," and, on Friday, that the infant's autopsy results were not expected for several days. 

On Monday, authorities said that no additional information about the infant will be released.


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