Defendant Threw Baby Out Of Sixth-Floor Apartment Window
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx woman has been
sentenced to three and one-third to ten years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree
Manslaughter in the death of her six-month-old daughter.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant, who was mentally impaired at the time,
dropped her infant daughter from a window of their sixth-floor apartment. Justice was served in this
tragic case.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Tenisha Fearon, 30, of 2200 Tiebout Avenue,
was given an indeterminate sentence of three and one third years to ten years in prison by Bronx
Supreme Court Justice Denis Boyle. The defendant pleaded guilty to second-degree Manslaughter
on December 18, 2018.
According to the investigation, on October 15, 2015, in the afternoon, the defendant, whose
mental condition was compromised by a psychotic symptom, was screaming about God, Satan and
the end of days, and was throwing objects out her apartment window. Fearon then took her baby,
Jahnyla Lawrence, who was naked, and dropped her out of the window. The child died of blunt
force trauma shortly afterwards. There were three other children, also naked, in the apartment when
the incident occurred--a 10-year-old boy and two girls ages eight and three.
District Attorney Clark thanked Detective Michael Moreno of the 46th Precinct and
retired Detective Sean O’Leary of the Homicide Task Force.
