A Westchester man convicted of tossing his infant daughter out of a seventh-story window was sentenced yesterday to 32 years in prison.
Willie Williams, 30, of Ossining, was found guilty in April of attempted murder for dropping his tiny daughter, 10-month-old Mionna Williams, 80 feet from the window of his ex-girlfriend’s Peekskill apartment last June.
The tot survived the plunge with just a broken rib and scratches thanks to the branches of a maple tree that slowed her fall, and the soft mulch at the base of the tree.
The incident was the chilling climax of a violent confrontation between Williams and the infant’s mother, Jasmine Gilleo.
Police and prosecutors said Williams had forced Gilleo, who had broken off their relationship, into his car and assaulted her before taking her back to her apartment in the Bohlmann Towers public housing project.
As the argument escalated, Williams removed a window guard, grabbed their tiny daughter, and threatened to throw her out the window, police said.
“I was screaming, ‘God, please help me,’ ” Gilleo testified at the trial.
She was on the phone pleading with a 911 operator for help when he dropped the child.
“Oh my God! He killed my baby!” police quoted her as telling the operator.
Gilleo’s mother also took the stand and described how Williams jumped up on a bed near an open window in her daughter’s apartment and dangled little Mionna by an arm and a leg, threatening to drop her.
Then “he looked me dead in the face and threw my granddaughter out the window,” said Virginia Gilleo.
Williams’ lawyer told jurors that it was the mother, not the father, who threw the infant out the window, but they didn’t buy it.
Westchester County Court Judge Kenneth Lange sentenced Williams to 25 years for attempted murder and seven years for assaulting Gilleo.
He ordered that the sentences be served back-to-back.