[danavs45]

CATHERINE GASCHKA, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VILLERS-AU-TERTRE, France - A French woman who admitted suffocating eight of her newborns and concealing their corpses in the garden and garage of her home has been charged with manslaughter, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Dominique Cottrez, a 46-year-old nurse's aide by profession, said that after a bad experience with her first pregnancy she never again wanted to see a doctor. She admitted delivering the babies herself and placing the corpses in plastic bags. She buried two of the newborns in the garden and hid the rest of them in the garage, prosecutor Eric Vaillant said.

"She explained that she didn't want any more children and that she didn't want to see a doctor to take contraceptives," Vaillant told a news conference. "She was perfectly conscious of the fact that she was pregnant each time."

Cottrez and her husband, Pierre-Marie Cottrez, were detained Wednesday after two corpses were discovered by the new owners in plastic bags in the garden of a house that had belonged to the woman's father in the town of Villers-au-Tertre in northern France. Under questioning, the woman admitted that there were six other corpses and told investigators that they were in plastic bags in the garage of her home where they were found.

The woman is still in detention and will undergo further psychiatric testing, Vaillant said. Her husband was freed from custody and not charged, although he remains under judicial control. He claimed that he knew nothing about the pregnancies of his wife, who is very large and apparently easily concealed her condition. Earlier, Vaillant said in a statement that the husband could be charged with failure to report a crime and concealment of corpses.

The couple's two grown daughters, who are in their 20s, have been questioned, Vaillant said. He refused to provide any further details about them or what they said.

The discovery was not major news Thursday in the mainstream French newspapers, which briefly noted them on their front pages but buried the stories inside. The main stories were the ban of bullfighting in Catalonia, Spain and the movie that French first lady Carla Sarkozy-Bruni is making with Woody Allen.

Police sealed the doors, gate and windows of the house where the remains of some of the babies were discovered. DNA tests are being conducted to establish for sure whether the couple are the parents, and autopsies are being conducted on the corpses to try to determine the cause of death.

France has seen a string of cases in recent years of mothers killing their newborns and saving and hiding the corpses.

In one case, Celine Lesage was sentenced in March to 15 years in prison after acknowledging in court that she killed six of her newborns, whose corpses were found in plastic bags in her basement in northwest France.

Another Frenchwoman, Veronique Courjault, was convicted last year of murdering three of her newborn children. Her husband discovered two of the corpses in a freezer while the two were living in South Korea. During the trial psychiatrists testified that she suffered from a psychological condition known as "pregnancy denial."

Germany also has seen similar cases. In one, a woman was convicted of manslaughter in 2006 and sentenced to the maximum 15 years in prison for killing eight of her newborn babies and burying them in flower pots and a fish tank in the garden of her parents' home near the German-Polish border
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[Rosenrot1989]

Crazy mental people these days. Hope she rots in prision.

[danavs45]

Originally Posted by Rosenrot1989

Crazy mental people these days. Hope she rots in prision.

Doubt very much if she will serve any prison time after "further psychiatric testing" they will find her not criminal responsible.

[steven charles]

i think this lady nurse was crazy why have kids if she was going to do that to them,thanks danavs45 for the interesting story and for sharing it with us.....

[packrat]

Yet another excellent reason to have legal free abortions.

[gopalmm2]

Originally Posted by packrat

Yet another excellent reason to have legal free abortions.

Second that.

[danavs45]

wikipedia.
"Abortion is legal on-request in France in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy (first trimester). Abortion has been decriminalized since the passage of the Veil Law in 1975. Abortion had been criminalized in France with the imposition of the Napoleonic Code. After the first trimester, two physicians must certify that the abortion will be done to prevent grave permanent injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman; a risk to the life of the pregnant woman; or that the child will suffer from a particularly severe illness recognized as incurable.
During the Nazi occupation during World War II, the Vichy régime made abortion a capital crime. (The last execution took place in 1942). Following the war, the death penalty for abortion was abolished, and special courts were set up to deal with abortion cases."

[danavs45]

Originally Posted by packrat

Yet another excellent reason to have legal free abortions.

Originally Posted by gopalmm2

Second that.

A legal abortion can't cure nut-jobs like this neither will "psychiatric testing" ,anyone who does something like this isn't playing with a full deck

[gopalmm2]

Originally Posted by danavs45

A legal abortion can't cure nut-jobs like this neither will "psychiatric testing" ,anyone who does something like this isn't playing with a full deck

That was just a j/k, lol. It's obvious something's wrong with her. Probably her limbic system has been affected.

Psychiatric testing won't cure but prove that she's a nutcase. It's really messed up to kill your own child after being born. What happened to protection? Are condoms banned in France?
Guess anything can happen these days...

[Victor Hugo]

Thanks Danavs for the information.......