The 18-year-old mother allegedly threw her baby from the second floor of an Ibis Style hotel 'with the umbilical cord', local authorities said.

The baby - who was estimated to be just a few hours old - was pronounced dead at the Robert-Debré hospital in the 19th arrondissement of the French capital, according to reports

An American tourist, 18, on a study trip to Paris with other students is suspected of throwing the newborn baby, which still had its umbilical cord attached, from the window of an Ibis Style hotel

A newborn baby has died in Paris this morning after being thrown from a window at a hotel in the 20th arrondissement of the French capital by an 18-year-old American woman.