Mia McQuillin, Bend, Oregon, U.S tourist, gap year student id as teen girl who threw newborn baby out of Paris hotel window, killing infant after being in pregnant denial as she now faces infant homicide charges. Hotel id as Ibis Styles hotel in 20th district.
An Oregon 18 year old has been identified as the American tourist who threw her newborn baby out of a Paris hotel window moments after the child’s birth, killing her.
Mia McQuillin, 18, a gap year student was identified by French media as the US student who had been traveling with a group of other young people in Europe.
Investigators believe she was suffering from ‘pregnancy denial’ when she wrapped the infant in a sheet and allegedly tossed it from the second floor of an Ibis Styles hotel moments after giving birth.
Gap year student traveling through Europe throws newborn out of Paris hotel window
The child was rushed to the hospital following the incident on Monday morning but didn’t survive the 30ft plunge.
Mia grew up in Bend, central Oregon, a picturesque city on the banks of the Deschutes River known its skiing and outdoor recreation.
Images posted on social media show Mia baking cakes and engaging with her siblings in family snaps.
‘I have nothing to comment because I don’t know anything,’ Mia’s grandfather Ralph McQuillin, 78, told DailyMail.com.
‘And that’s pretty much where the family is. That’s all I can say.’
Mia’s family members declined to comment further.
The teenage mother allegedly threw her baby from the second floor of an Ibis Styles hotel ‘with the umbilical cord‘, authorities said.
Investigators in Paris believe the young woman was suffering from ‘pregnancy denial’ when she gave birth ‘unexpectedly’ at the budget hotel in the French capital.
The baby has been wrapped up in a sheet when it was discovered in the street of the city’s 20th arrondissement [district], not far from the historic Place de la Nation.
The new-born was rushed to hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival due to the seriousness of her injuries.
The young mother was taken to the same hospital for treatment following childbirth.
Detectives arrested her at the clinic and charged with ‘child homicide’, according to French authorities.
Emergency services took the baby to the Robert Debre hospital after witnesses reported the incident at around 6am on Monday.
The Paris prosecutor’s office told Le Parisien that the child did not survive the fall and succumbed to injuries.
An investigation has been opened for ‘homicide of a minor under 15’, the city’s public prosecutor told the outlet.
The office said that the mother was ‘part of a group of young adults traveling in Europe’.
They said she had also been taken to hospital for an operation. She was taken into custody on site, the office said.
Witnesses were reportedly ‘alerted by screams’ before calling the emergency services, according to Paris Match.
The baby was said to have been taken ‘in absolute emergency and with a life-threatening prognosis’ to the hospital before being declared dead.
‘The investigation is underway and the precise circumstances of this tragedy remain to be established,’ a person close to the case told the outlet.
The Ibis Styles is a three-star budget hotel off Rue de la Croix Saint-Simon. Rooms go for around $100 on average.
