Rashida Chowdhury, 21, was awaiting arraignment a day after 3-week old Rizwan Ahmad was found dead in a on the barren courtyard of the Queens building.
This is a truly horrific and disturbing case, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said. “The alleged actions of the defendant are totally incomprehensible.”
Medical examiners ruled the baby’s death a homicide, saying he died of blunt impact injuries and had suffered skull fractures and lacerations to his brain, liver and spleen.
Neighbor Mazol Ilyayeva told reporters she heard something fall around 4 a.m. Friday and then saw the child’s lifeless body in the courtyard.
“I couldn’t move. I couldn’t scream,” she said. “I couldn’t even look. … It’s horrible.”It was unclear if Chowdhury had a lawyer who could comment on the charges; no telephone number could immediately be found for her Queens apartment.
She said the parents had seemed stricken as they stood in the courtyard afterward.
“The mom was holding the husband,” Ilyayeva said. “Their faces were blank.”
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