Lopez has been charged with child abuse (Picture: Antonia Lopez / Facebook)

A 16-year-old girl accused of throwing her newborn daughter out of a window moments after giving birth has been named by police.

Antonia Lopez is to be charged as an adult after her baby was thrown from the second floor shortly after birth.

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The girl then allegedly told her mother what had happened. According to authorities, Lopez’s mum found the baby in the grass, called emergency services immediately and performed CPR on the baby until paramedics arrived.

Sadly, the infant died by the time she had been taken to hospital.


The teen accused of throwing her newborn baby out an apartment window (Picture: KETV)

The teen, from Omaha in Nebraska, posted a Facebook status at around 3.40am before police officers arrived, asking: ‘Who can do me a huge favour and has a car?’



Paramedics were dispatched to Lopez’s home just 32 minutes later.

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Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said the baby was born prematurely, but was not stillborn.

I has not been revealed how far along Lopez was in her pregnancy.

The teen was involved in a school parenting project (Picture: Antonia Lopez / Facebook)

Autopsy results for the infant could take several days, according to police.

Lopez was taken to the hospital for tests and was later charged on Friday.

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She is facing one count of child abuse resulting in death.

Her grandfather John Barcelona said he didn’t know his granddaughter was pregnant.

Lopez’s daughter died on the way to hospital (Picture: Antonia Lopez / Facebook)

‘She looked like she was well underweight more than anything else, I would’ve never dreamed that she was pregnant,’ he told KETV.

‘In my head, I just can’t believe it, I can’t believe it.’

It’s not yet known if other relatives knew about the teen’s pregnancy.