What the hell is going on here?

[Gob]

NEW YORK (AP) — A baby girl was thrown from a sixth-floor window of an apartment building to her death on Thursday, witnesses and police said, making her the third child killed that way in the city in three months.

Six-month-old Janillah Lawrence was in a Bronx apartment with her mother, Tenisha Fearon, 27, and three other children at the time, police said. The other children — a 10-year-old boy, an 8-year-old girl and a 3-year-old girl — weren't injured but were taken to a hospital, police said.
Fearon was taken from the home, in the Fordham Heights neighborhood, to a hospital for an evaluation and couldn't be reached for comment. Police later arrested her on a murder charge.
Police received a 911 call saying the mother was dangling the baby outside the apartment window. Subsequent callers said they watched as the baby was thrown.


Neighbor Lizette Rodriguez said the woman had been shouting, "I'm going to throw her. We're all gonna die!" Other neighbors shouted to the woman, "Don't do it," Rodrgiuez said.
Rodriguez called 911 and said she heard the baby hit the ground while she was on the phone.
Gregorio Lopez, who lives next door to Fearon, said he heard a commotion in the hallway and a man yelling, "Please, God. Please help us!"
Lopez said he didn't want to leave his apartment because he didn't know what was happening but went to the roof after the man left. When he arrived there, he looked into his neighbor's window.

"I saw her naked and the three kids naked and I thought they were all dead," Lopez said. "And then she jumps up and starts hitting the window."


He shouted down to some women on the street to call 911.
"I was yelling, 'Hurry up!'" he said. "I thought she was going to throw the rest."
Officers had to take down the apartment door because Fearon wouldn't open it, police said.
Pauline Bryan, who knows Fearon from the neighborhood, said she had just seen her on Tuesday outside the building.
"She never told me she had problems," Bryan said. "She's not a mother like that. May God help her."

[MajGenl.Meade]

It's just New York

Police investigating the brutal assault of two teenaged boys that left one dead and the other seriously injured say the boys were beaten with a cord in their family’s New York church, but it's unclear why a church meeting turned so violent.

New Hartford Police Chief Michael Inserra told reporters Friday that investigators have determined the boys had similar wounds and believe the beating caused the death of Lucas Leonard, 19. Lucas’ brother, Christopher, 17, remains hospitalized in serious condition since the alleged attack at the Word of Life Christian Church Sunday.

The investigation suggests that “the extent of the bruising and contusions from the assault caused the death, but an official cause of death is still pending,” Inserra said.

The boys' parents, Bruce T. Leonard, 65, and Deborah Leonard, 59, who live in nearby Clayville, have been arrested and charged with first-degree manslaughter in Lucas' death. The two appeared shackled and in orange prison uniforms in a New Hartford courtroom for a preliminary hearing Friday.

Leonard and her husband, Bruce Leonard of Clayville, N.Y., were charged with first-degree manslaughter in the beating death of their 19-year-old son, Lucas. (New Hartford Police Department via AP)

Church members have told police that a counseling session at the Word of Life Christian Church Sunday escalated into the fatal beating after a discussion of Lucas' desire to leave the upstate New York congregation.

[RayThom]

Postpartum depression.