Prosecutors investigate mother's previous infant death
The Yonkers woman accused of killing her newborn daughter earlier this week had another newborn found dead in a Westchester basement in 2008, according to prosecutors. Officials say that they are reopening
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Oct 1, 2015, 1:58 AM
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The Yonkers woman accused of killing her newborn daughter earlier this week had another newborn found dead in a Westchester basement in 2008, according to prosecutors.
Officials say that they are reopening the investigation into that case now that Jennifer Berry has been arrested in the Bronx on charges that she threw her newborn child out of a seventh-story window.
The 2008 death was initially attributed to sudden infant death syndrome. The baby boy, who was just over 2 weeks old, was found unconscious in his crib.
News 12 previously reported that Berry was charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter in connection with the death of a newborn girl Monday.
Police accuse her of giving birth in her boyfriend's apartment in the University Heights neighborhood of the Bronx and then throwing the healthy baby girl out of a window to the pavement below.
Berry's boyfriend did not know she was pregnant, and police say she likely delivered the baby alone in his shower.
Dr. Suzanne Greenidge, a Yonkers OB-GYN, says that women who have gone through multiple births can sometimes deliver very fast.
"This is a very sad state of affairs, and she must have been in a state that was not good to allow her to do something like this," Greenidge says.
Reports say that Berry's boyfriend may have been seeing someone else.
At her arraignment, Berry asked for medical attention while awaiting her next court appearance.
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