Baby Shafted in NJ

An indictment for murder and attempted murder was handed up yesterday against Jose Julio Ventura, who is accused of repeatedly raping his teenage daughter and telling her to throw their two newborn infants down their apartment building's air shaft, officials said yesterday.

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On Sept. 13, Salmeron's wife was taking a shower when she heard crying coming from the bathroom window and called her husband, Salmeron said in Spanish during an interview yesterday.

He opened the window and saw a streak of blood across the narrow air shaft and turned the beam of his flashlight downward, he recalled. When the light landed on the baby, he said, it stopped crying.

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