HORRIFIC INFANT MURDER: Woman throws daughter from the sixth floor of their apartment building

'I'm going to throw her. We're all gonna die!'

A third baby was thrown from a New York City building in the last three months, but there have been no connections between the separate incidents.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - On Thursday, witnesses and New York City police said a baby girl was thrown from a sixth-story window of an apartment building. Six-month-old Hanillah Lawrence fell to her death when her mother, 27-year-old Tenisha Fearan, tossed the child out of their Bronx apartment.

Local authorities confirmed they received 911 phone calls with reports that a woman was dangling a baby outside their apartment window. Several callers were on the line as the baby was thrown.

Fearon's neighbor, Lizette Rodriguez, said Fearon had shouted, "I'm going to throw her. We're all gonna die!" Other neighbors joined Rodriguez in shouting, "Don't do it!"

Rodriguez called 911 and claimed she heard the impact as the child hit the ground while she was on the phone. 

Gregorio Lopez, Fearon's immediate neighbor, said he heard a man in the hall, yelling, "Please, God. Please help us!"

Lopez remained in his apartment out of fear but went to the roof after the yelling man left. When he reached the roof he peered into Fearon's apartment and made the following statement:

"I saw her naked and the three kids naked and I thought they were all dead. And then she jumps up and starts hitting the window. I was yelling [to women on the street to call 911], 'hurry up!' I thought she was going to throw the rest."

When authorities arrived at her apartment door, Fearon refused to open the door and the officers were forced take it down. 

Pauline Bryan, a friend living in Fearon's neighborhood, said she had last seen Fearon Tuesday outside the apartment building. "She never told me she had problems," Bryan admitted. "She's not a mother like that. May God help her."

Fearon's other children, a 10-year-old boy, eight-year-old girl and three-year-old girl, were not injured but were taken to the hospital. The Administration for Children's Services released a statement saying an investigation was already underway to ensure the safety of the remaining children.

Lawrence's gruesome death marks the third infant murder after being flung from a New York City building in the past three months. In September, a newborn still with her umbilical cord attached, was discovered dead outside an apartment building in the University Heights section of the borough. 

Local authorities reportedly arrested the newborn's mother on murder and manslaughter charges after she hid her pregnancy then gave birth and promptly threw the infant from a seventh-story window.

In August, a Queens woman was arrested for the death of her month-old son who, according to court papers, had been thrown from a fourth-story window. The woman claimed an evil spirit had possessed her son so she killed him and was successful in "stopping the pain."

Both women have plead not guilty.

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