A teenager received a suspended sentence
after she was found guilty of killing her baby
by throwing it out of an eighth-floor window,
a court in east China's Jiangsu Province said
on Thursday.
Huqiu District People's Court in Suzhou City
gave the girl, identified only as Cai, a prison
term of three years with a four-year
probation period for intentional homicide.
According to a statement issued by the
court, the mother, who was 17 at the time,
gave birth to her baby in a toilet at a rented
apartment in August 2015.
``When Cai, who had no inkling that she was
pregnant, heard her newborn's first cries, she
panicked and threw her out of the bathroom
window to avoid any unwanted attention
from her neighbours,'' the statement said.
Cai got pregnant during a drunken one-night
stand with an underage boy she had met
online, she told the court she could not even
remember the name of the baby's father.
The court heard the case in a private session
and gave a lighter sentence as underage
juveniles were involved.
However, the court did not disclose the
judgement date.
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