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Prosecutors: French Mother Confesses to Killing Her 8 Newborns

   VOA News 29 July 2010

Photo: AP

   View of house where two corpses were discovered by the new owners that
   had    belonged   to   Dominique   Cottrez's   father   in   town   of
   Villers-au-Tertre, France

   French prosecutors have charged a woman in her 40s with murder, saying
   she  confessed  to  killing her eight newborn babies and burying their
   remains.
   Prosecutors  say  Dominique Cottrez did not want any more children and
   did not want to visit a doctor for contraception.
   Her  husband  was  apparently  unaware  his wife had given birth eight
   times and killed the children.
   French  officials describe Cottrez as a heavy-set woman and say it was
   easy for her to conceal her pregnancies.
   Cottrez   and   her   husband   live   in   the  northern  village  of
   Villers-au-Tertre.
   The  new  owners  of Cottrez's parents' house found two of the corpses
   buried in the ground in plastic bags.
   This  led police to Cottrez's current house, where they found six more
   bodies hidden in the garage.
   Village  residents  say  they  are  in  shock  over  what  one calls a
   revolting and monstrous crime.

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