A 21-year-old woman has been sentenced to three years in prison and five years of probation for killing her own newborn baby, the Pudong New Area People’s Court said yesterday.

The Uighur woman, whose surname was given as Wu, was a high school student when the crime was committed. She gave birth to a baby boy at 7:30am on May 20, 2019, in her school in Huinan Town, but then stuffed his mouth with toilet paper, put him in a plastic bag and threw him out of a fourth-floor window, the court said.