California mom, 32, with severe postpartum depression kills her two-month-old baby daughter by throwing her from a moving vehicle and then tries to kill herself in Bali

A newborn baby has been confirmed dead after her 32-year-old mother threw her from a moving vehicle.

According to reports, the American woman, identified as Nicole Stasio, also attempted to kill herself by jumping out of the car without warning at an intersection on Tuesday evening.

Stasio was reportedly suffering from severe post-natal depression.

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Reports said the incident happened in Bali, Indonesia.

Police said they were initially unaware of what had happened to the baby.

But villagers found the infant with severe injuries less than a mile from where Stasio leapt out of the vehicle.

The baby died about seven hours later at the same hospital, Bali Mandara, where Stasio is being treated.

South Denpasar police chief Nyoman Wiarajaya told a news conference that officers haven’t been able to question Stasio because she is hospitalized in a severe state of depression.

Wiarajaya said the woman, who was born in California, traveled to Bali with her parents in July.

The parents stayed in Bali for about 10 days and Stasio gave birth on the island in September after her parents had left.

‘She refused to answer when they (the parents) asked about her baby’s father,’ Wiarajaya said, quoting information from the driver and tour guide who had accompanied the family since they arrived.

‘But she gave the impression that she was unmarried and her family preferred that she give birth to a child abroad, like wanting to avoid something,’ he said.

Friends on Facebook said Stasio was suffering from post-partum depression.

Ms Stasio had started a GoFundMe page for financial help in raising her child.

She had written,

“I am creating a life of beauty, abundance, peace, and unconditional love for myself and my little baby maestro,” she wrote on the page.

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“I am full of joy and excitement to be a mother and guardian of this rainbow starseed coming into this world in mid-August. I am doing the best I can to make my dream a reality, and with this call for help from my community.

“I am overcoming my fear of asking for help. With great humility and gratitude, I ask for help from my friends and soul family to raise money for welcoming this baby into the world with a midwife and all the little necessities around childbirth.”