Yonkers, NY Mother Throws Live New-born Baby Out Bronx Window

Jennifer Berry, 33, of Yonkers

[From article]

The newborn baby girl found dead in a Bronx courtyard was still alive when her mom tossed her out of a seventh-floor window, law enforcement sources said Tuesday.
Charges were pending against Jennifer Berry, 33, of Yonkers, who had claimed to cops that she gave birth to a stillborn baby in the shower — then threw the child out of her boyfriend’s bathroom window on Monday afternoon. But the city’s Medical Examiner concluded that the infant was still breathing in the University Heights apartment — and ruled the death a homicide.
“The cause of death is multiple blunt force injuries,” said New York City Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Barbara Sampson.
The wife of the building’s superintendent stumbled upon the baby when she was taking out the trash, and cops were called to the scene around 2:45 p.m.

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Baby still alive when mom tossed out window, police say
By Larry Celona and Shawn Cohen
New York Post
September 29, 2015 | 5:44pm

Yonkers NY, A City Of Lessons

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Yonkers’ budget is an astounding $1 billion a year, for a city of barely 200,000. And 80%-85% of that budget is taken up by salaries and benefits.
In large measure, the roots of Yonkers’ predicament lie in its knack for signing strikingly generous union contracts.
Under the terms of their current contract, which Mayor Mike Spano describes as “the most generous contract of any fire department in America,” the starting salary of a Yonkers’ firefighter is $71,000 — $20,000 higher than that of a New York City firefighter.
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The average salary for a Yonkers public-school teacher is more than $100,000. Under the terms of their most recent contract, which expired in June 2011, any teacher with a master’s degree and 15 years of experience earns a salary of $113,674.
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in 2006, sold the library building to balance the school district’s budget.
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Yonkers had been placed under a court order to build public housing in certain white middle-class neighborhoods. When the city council voted to defy this order, Judge Leonard Sand retaliated with a fine that began at $100 and doubled every day, a rate that threatened literally to bankrupt the city within weeks. As Lisa Belkin’s book “Show Me a Hero” dramatically recounts, the control board took over city government until the city council relented and voted to allow the housing.
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Teachers, firefighters and police officers spent decades getting lucrative promises out of cities across the nation. Now that the bills are coming due, will the unions kill the golden geese?

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A nation gone Yonkers
With a $1 billion budget and out-of-control union costs, the city is hurtling toward bankruptcy. The scary part? Towns across America face the exact same disaster
By STEPHEN EIDE
New York Post
Last Updated: 11:12 PM, September 15, 2012
Posted: 11:07 PM, September 15, 2012