Teen is ma of dead baby in plane john

An 18-year-old Brooklyn woman has been identified as the mother of the premature newborn found dead inside an airplane toilet at LaGuardia Airport. She was returning with her sister from a trip to Jamaica and could have been the victim of a “botched abortion,” officials said Wednesday.

The teen, who checked into Kings County Hospital after she got off the plane, claimed she never knew she was pregnant when she rushed into the bathroom of an American Airlines plane after it landed about 10:45 p.m. Monday.

“She pulled the baby out and put it in the toilet and covered it with paper,” a law enforcement source said.

The woman told investigators she hadn’t been feeling well for days but showed little emotion, the source said.

“It was like talking to a stone wall,” the source said.

Doctors who examined the woman at the hospital told investigators it was possible the baby’s death could have been the result of a “botched abortion,” the source said.

The teen told police she had visited a doctor in the Caribbean nation before flying back to the U.S., but it was unclear whether police asked if she’d gone for an abortion.

A cleaning crew for Airway Cleaners found the baby’s body in a middle bathroom of the plane, which was parked outside an American Airlines airplane hangar about 6 a.m. Tuesday. The baby appeared to have been born three months prematurely.

No charges have been filed against the teen as investigators await the results of an autopsy, which will show if the baby was born alive or dead.

Sources said the teen, her sister and other relatives had flown from Jamaica to Charlotte, N.C., to make a connecting flight to New York.

Members of the flight crew noticed that the teen was not feeling well and she had rushed to the bathroom as passengers were exiting.

The flight crew told investigators about the sick passenger, who was identified by her seating assignment.

The investigation remains open until the autopsy is concluded, officials said.