New details known

Child thrown from 3rd floor: Mother in psychiatric ward

After a mother in Berlin allegedly threw her one-year-old child out of her third-floor apartment, the woman has been provisionally admitted to a psychiatric facility due to indications of illness. This was announced by the Berlin public prosecutor's office. 

There are "indications that the 40-year-old mother is mentally ill", it said.

The case is being investigated on suspicion of attempted murder with base motives.

Overstrained
According to a report in the "Bild" newspaper, the woman is said to have three other underage children and an adult child and to have been overwhelmed.

Girl was found in cat box
The little girl was found with serious injuries from a fall in a cat box in front of a house in the Treptow-Köpenick district on the south-eastern outskirts of Berlin. The police found the mother in the apartment and arrested her.

In addition to the mother, the police found another child aged nine in the apartment. It was handed over to the youth welfare office.