NEW YORK (AP) — A teenage mother was charged with murder after she allegedly tossed her newborn baby out of the window of her boyfriend's apartment, police said.

The baby's body was found naked in a garbage-strewn alleyway behind a New York City apartment building Wednesday by firefighters.

An autopsy determined that the baby had been born alive and died of blunt impact to the head, said Ellen Borakove, spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office.

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Chavonda Dunkin, 17, was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday on charges of second-degree murder, Sgt. William Stiles said.

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