Prosecutors: French Mother Confesses to Killing Her 8 Newborns
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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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this incident is truly tragic, but it strikes a bit of irony that because she did not have the doctor 'abort' her baby but did it herself it is called murder and not an abortion ... hmmmm - so clinical murder of a child is called abortion and is legal - we are godless
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O Ministério Público francês confirmou nesta quinta-feira que Dominique Cottrez matou oito recém-nascidos e enterrou os seus restos mortais.

Cottrez admitiu estrangular oito bebês e esconder os restos mortais em sacos de lixo. As mortes ocorreram durante um período de tempo de vários anos, 1989-2006 ou 2007. Isso poderia causar Cottrez a servir uma sentença de prisão perpétua.

O novo proprietário de uma antiga casa do Cottrez descobriu sacos com os restos mortais de duas crianças.

O marido de Cottrez, Pierre-Marie Cottrez, não tinha conhecimento dos crimes.