A naked mother accused of throwing her newborn daughter and toddler son from a second-floor Brooklyn apartment has been charged with multiple violent felonies, including two counts of attempted murder.
Dejhanay Jarrell, 24, threw her children, who were naked too, from the window before diving out of it herself around 11:20am Saturday in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, according to police.
She allegedly continued to pound the infant’s head into the ground because she was ‘tired of being by herself’, the New York Post reported.
Heroic neighbor Carl Chin, 41, jumped in to save the children.
He told DailyMail.com he was lying down in bed having a conversation with his fiancé when the couple heard the baby crying.
‘Within seconds we heard a thump, like the body just hits the ground. So she jumps up to the window and sees the two kids on the floor,’ he said.
He said the woman appeared to snap back to realty when he was separating them and thanked him while asking him to take care of her daughter.
The NYPD said the little girl was taken to Maimonides Hospital in critical condition while the woman and her son were taken to Brookdale Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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Dejhanay Jarrell, 24,pictured here with her son as a baby, is accused of throwing her newborn baby and now two-year-old son out of her New York City window
Jarrell’s two-year-old son is in the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the NYPD, but his baby sister is in critical condition
The naked woman had allegedly thrown her children out of the second floor of her apartment, pictured
Jarrell was charged on Saturday with two counts of attempted murder, two counts of assault, two counts of reckless endangerment and acting in a manner dangerous to a child younger than 17, according to police.
Police and ambulances responded after Chin called 911.
His fiancé ran to the back of the home, screaming at Jarrell: ‘Don’t hurt the child. Don’t hurt the child!’
‘I run to the back and I see the mom has the child in one hand and she drops her. The infant. She drops the infant a couple of times,’ Chin said.
He said he leapt over the fence tried to grab Jarrell, who sat down with the newborn in a ‘headlock.’
‘I kind of forcefully took the baby from her, using my forearm, and got her to loosen her grip with the baby. We exchanged a few words and within the seconds the FDNY and ambulance came and took care of it,’ he said.
He added: ‘I wasn’t even thinking, I just reacted because I couldn’t even believe what I was seeing.’
Chin told reporters outside the home that the toddler appeared to be in good condition after the attack and ‘wasn’t crying’ or ‘moaning in pain.’ The infant, however, seemed to be clinging to consciousness.
‘She was trying to open her eyes and it was closing. Half her face was bruised. I hope she didn’t hit her head on the concrete, but her head was shaped kind of like after you hit it hard and swelling starts to form,’ Chin said.
Chin said the woman then appeared to snap back to realty and thanked him while asking him to take care of her daughter.
‘I have no idea what was going on with the mom. I had never met her or seen her prior to this but she clearly is not in the right state of mind. She must have been having some kind of mental breakdown because they were all naked,’ he said.
Jarrell, who was naked at the time of the incident, was charged with multiple violent felonies, including two counts of attempted murder
The NYPD, who had officers outside the apartment, said the little girl was taken to Maimonides Hospital in critical condition while the woman and her son were taken to Brookdale Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries
Shandie Harrison, Chin’s sister-in-law, told the New York Daily News she saw the mother hold the newborn by the leg and pound her head twice into the ground.
‘We saw the newborn, we started screaming. It was three of them naked on the ground, the mom, the newborn baby and another little child,’ she said.
She said the newborn was bleeding from her ear and the toddler had bruises on his forehead and his knee.
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