KINGSTON, Jamaica — Police in Jamaica say a woman killed a newborn baby girl by throwing her out a second-story window at the island’s largest maternity hospital.

Constable Yanique Matthews says the infant was found dead Thursday morning outside Victoria Jubilee Hospital in the capital of Kingston.

The woman is still at large. Matthews said that police have not identified her and do not know if she is the baby’s mother.

Hospital officials declined to comment.

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Hospital authority denies claim that baby was thrown from window
The South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) is refuting claims that a baby was thrown from a building at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH) in Kingston in a press release today.

Lyttleton Shirley, Chairman of the SERHA board said the baby, believed to be no more than three-days-old, was found on the grounds of the facility at approximately 5:00 a.m. today during a routine patrol of the compound by the police.

He said a thorough check of the hospital’s records revealed that the baby was not presently a patient and that no babies are missing.

“We are traumised and shocked by this gruesome act. Let me assure the public that babies under the care of VJH are highly protected and cared for,” he said.

“We also want to make it profoundly clear that the baby was not thrown from any hospital building as a full audit of the entire hospital and its patients revealed that the maternal patients have accounted for all their babies. An audit was also conducted in the morgue and all the bodies are accounted for,” he said.

Shirley also noted that an examination of the body by medical personnel revealed that there was no blood or body fluids present at the site where the mutilated body was found, suggesting that the body could have been transported to the compound.

He further stated that the hospital staff has begun an audit of all mothers discharged from the hospital within the last 48 hours to assist the police with their investigations into the matter.