American student, 18, 'who hurled her newborn baby from Paris hotel room to its death' is identified as Mia McQuillin from Oregon

The American tourist facing accusations of causing the death of her newborn baby by throwing it out of a hotel window in Paris can now be identified as a youthful teenager from Oregon.

Gap year student Mia McQuillin, 18, was part of ‘a group of young people traveling in Europe’, according to French authorities.

Authorities suspect that she was experiencing ‘pregnancy denial’ at the time, leading her to swathe the baby in a sheet and allegedly hurl it from the second story of an Ibis Styles hotel right after giving birth.

The child was rushed to the hospital following the horrifying incident on Monday morning but didn’t survive the 30ft plunge.

Mia grew up in Bend, central Oregon, a picturesque city on the banks of the Deschutes River known its skiing and outdoor recreation.

She looks like a typical, bubbly teenager, baking cakes and having fun with her siblings in family snaps posted to social media.

‘I have nothing to comment because I don’t know anything,’ Mia’s shaken grandfather Ralph McQuillin, 78, told DailyMail.com.

‘And that’s pretty much where the family is. That’s all I can say.’

Gap year student Mia McQuillin, 18, was part of ¿a group of young people travelling in Europe¿, according to French authorities

Gap year student Mia McQuillin, 18, was part of ‘a group of young people travelling in Europe’, according to French authorities

The American student accused of throwing her newborn baby out of a hotel window to their death in Paris was on a school trip around Europe

The American student accused of throwing her newborn baby out of a hotel window to their death in Paris was on a school trip around Europe 

 Mia’s family members declined to comment further.

The teenage mother allegedly threw her baby from the second floor of an Ibis Styles hotel ‘with the umbilical cord’, authorities said.

Investigators in Paris speculate that the adolescent was grappling with ‘pregnancy denial’ when she unexpectedly delivered the baby at the economical hotel in the French capital.

The baby has been wrapped up in a sheet when it was discovered in the street of the city’s 20th arrondissement [district], not far from the historic Place de la Nation.

The new-born was rushed to hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival due to the seriousness of her injuries.

The young mother was taken to the same hospital for treatment following childbirth.

Detectives arrested her at the clinic and charged with ‘child homicide’, according to French authorities.

Emergency services took the baby to the Robert Debre hospital after witnesses reported the incident at around 6am on Monday. 

An investigation has been opened for 'homicide of a minor under 15' after the incident at the Ibis Styles hotel off Rue de la Croix Saint-Simon

An investigation has been opened for ‘homicide of a minor under 15’ after the incident at the Ibis Styles hotel off Rue de la Croix Saint-Simon

The Ibis Styles hotel, in the 20th arrondissement, where rooms go for around £80, pictured today

The Ibis Styles hotel, in the 20th arrondissement, where rooms go for around £80, pictured today

Mia grew up in Bend, central Oregon, a picturesque city on the banks of the Deschutes River known its skiing and outdoor recreation

Mia grew up in Bend, central Oregon, a picturesque city on the banks of the Deschutes River known its skiing and outdoor recreation

The street was closed for more than five hours after the incident, sources told DailyMail.com. 

The Paris prosecutor’s office told Le Parisien that the child did not survive the fall and succumbed to injuries.

An investigation has been opened for ‘homicide of a minor under 15’, the city’s public prosecutor told the outlet. 

The office said that the mother was ‘part of a group of young adults traveling in Europe’.

They said she had also been taken to hospital for an operation. She was taken into custody on site, the office said.

Witnesses were reportedly ‘alerted by screams’ before calling the emergency services, according to Paris Match.

The baby was said to have been taken ‘in absolute emergency and with a life-threatening prognosis’ to the hospital before being declared dead.

‘The investigation is underway and the precise circumstances of this tragedy remain to be established,’ a person close to the case told the outlet.

There was no police presence outside the hotel this afternoon, MailOnline saw

There was no police presence outside the hotel this afternoon, MailOnline saw

The woman reportedly threw her baby from the 2nd floor of the hotel in Paris, Le Parisien reported

The woman reportedly threw her baby from the 2nd floor of the hotel in Paris, Le Parisien reported

 The Ibis Styles is a three-star budget hotel off Rue de la Croix Saint-Simon. Rooms go for around $100 on average. 

Paris local Tassos Xenakis told MailOnline there was no police presence or cordon at the hotel by early this afternoon.

Last year a woman from Germany was found guilty of manslaughter after dropping her newborn baby nearly 12ft from her apartment window allegedly because ‘she was worried a baby would ruin her career’.

Katarina Jovanovic was found guilty at the Heilbronn District Court on July 3.

Jovanovic admitted to the crime at the beginning of the trial but could not explain the moment to the court, ASB Zeitung reported.

She also claimed she had not realized she was pregnant. But the prosecution accused her of homicide and of deliberately concealing her pregnancy from colleagues and neighbors.

Prosecutors told the court that Jovanovic thought being a mother would spoil her career as an executive in Porsche’s legal department.

Public prosecutor Mareike Hafendoerfer said: ‘The accused was not prepared to put her life plans, especially her professional advancement, on hold for a child.

‘That was her decision when the baby was born, and as a result, the criteria for a homicide conviction are fulfilled.’

File photo. The American was said to have thrown the baby from a hotel window in Paris

File photo. The American was said to have thrown the baby from a hotel window in Paris

Defense attorney Malte Hoech said: ‘It is a drama that affects me personally. My client did not even know that she was pregnant.

‘When she suddenly held the bloody baby in her hands, she was in an exceptional psychological situation.

‘It was an accident, she dropped the baby. How the child ended up over the windowsill remains to be determined.’

The court accepted the lesser charge of manslaughter but jailed her for seven and a half years, which was more than the three years the defense had demanded.

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