Under Illinois’ safe haven law, 19-year-old Mubashra Uddin could have walked a half block from her Chicago apartment and turned her newborn child over to Weiss Memorial Hospital staff with no questions asked.

Instead, police believe Uddin gave birth to a healthy 7 pound, 11 ounce girl in the uptown apartment she shares with her strict Muslim parents at around 11:20 p.m. Wednesday, then dropped the child out the eighth floor window when she heard her mother approaching the room, the Chicago Tribune reports.

Police said the newborn fell to a grassy area just outside the apartment, where a man found it naked and bloody, but still breathing, around 11:45 p.m. and alerted building security to call 911. The man took the infant back to his apartment and swaddled it in blankets until medics arrived.

“Baby Jane Uddin,” as she’s called in police reports, eventually died at Weiss Memorial Hospital at 12:25 a.m.

The fall crushed the baby’s skull, shoulders, and ribs, and lacerated numerous organs. Baby Jane Uddin also suffered from serious internal bleeding. Cook County officials listed her official cause of death as a homicide by blunt-force trauma, according to the news site.

Neighbors told police they believed Uddin may have been pregnant, and learned her apartment was directly above where the infant was found, umbilical chord still attached, CBS 2 reports. Inside the apartment police found blood in the bathroom and bedroom, as well as bloody sheets and scissors.

Uddin first denied involvement, but later made “multiple admissions” in a video interview, Assistant State’s Attorney Patrick Turnock told the Tribune.

“Prosecutors state that Uddin sought to hide the pregnancy from her Muslim family as she knew they would be upset that the child was mixed race. Uddin is of Indian descent and the father is African American. She wore loose clothing so as not to reveal that she was with child,” Christian News reports.

Turnock said Uddin, a DeVry University student, told her boyfriend and another friend when she learned she was pregnant.

Uddin was ordered held without bail following her arraignment Saturday in Cook County court on a single count of first-degree murder, though she did not appear at the hearing because she’s was hospitalized, according to the Tribune.

CBS 2 reports neighbors in the building held a vigil for the baby Friday night.

“It’s so upsetting,” building resident Fayaz Mian said. “It’s just crazy how people could do something like that.”

“I would have taken the baby,” another resident, Katy Gray, told the news site. “I’m 71, and I would have taken the baby.”

Under Illinois law, all police fire and hospital workers are required to accept any infant under 30 days old with no questions asked, Christian News reports.

“They can hand over their baby to somebody and walk away,” Dawn Geras, spokeswoman for Save Abandoned Babies Foundation. “They’ll be safe and the baby will be adopted and loved and cherished forever.”

Weiss Memorial Hospital is a half block from Uddin’s apartment, according to Christian News.