State Superior Court
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State Superior Court
A teenager admitted in court that she tried to kill her newborn son by throwing him down an air shaft in her West New York apartment building and said that two years earlier, her father killed another newborn by tossing her down the same air shaft. Under a deal with prosecutors, the teenager, Lucila Ventura, 18, an immigrant from El Salvador who is mildly retarded, pleaded guilty in State Superior Court here to reckless manslaughter in the death of the baby girl, admitting her involvement in the crime while also implicating her father.