Uptown Teen Charged With Dropping Baby Out Of Window Has Support Of Her Family

By Kate Shepherd in News on Nov 17, 2015 2:30PM

Cook County Sheriff's Office via People Magazine

The family of the Uptown teenager who allegedly killed her newborn baby by dropping her out of an eighth-story window last week is apparently standing by her.

She is "a very humble person" with "contrite-type attitude," her lawyers told the Tribune.

Mubashra Uddin, 19, appeared in a Cook County courtroom Monday on first-degree murder charges for the tragic death. When interviewed by investigators, she reportedly denied any connection to the infant but then made "multiple admissions" on video.

Uddin's lawyer Adam Sheppard plans to argue for her to be released on bail at a bond hearing on Thursday. Prosecutors said that they will seek to continue to hold her without bail.

Uddin did not tell her family about her pregnancy because she knew her Muslim parents from Pakistan would not approve of the situation, according to prosecutors. She managed to cover up her baby bump with baggy clothes but several people interviewed by police suspected that she might be pregnant.

She went into labor at the Uptown apartment she shares with her parents and younger sister and gave birth to a a 7-pound, 11-ounce girl in her bedroom around 11:20 p.m. on Wednesday. When she heard her mother approaching her room, she opened her bedroom window and dropped the baby out of it, according to prosecutors.

A man found the baby in a grassy area near the apartment building in the 800 block of West Eastwood Avenue around 11:45 p.m. She was still breathing when she was found but died at 12:25 a.m. on Thursday from massive injuries including complex skull fractures and a fractured spine, according to prosecutors.

Police found blood in several places in the apartment's bedroom and bathroom and bloody sheets and bloody scissors, according to authorities.