Trial opens of French woman accused of killing eight of her newborn babies

[malaise]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/25/french-woman-on-trial-accused-of-suffocating-eight-of-her-newborn-babies
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A French woman accused of suffocating eight of her newborn babies told investigators she feared they were the children of an incestuous relationship with her father.

Cottrez told investigators she was raped by her father, first when she was eight and repeatedly through her childhood and teenage years, according to judicial documents. She later entered a long, incestuous relationship with him as an adult, including after she married. She said it became consenting, and she was in love with her father more than with her husband. Her father died in 2007.

One of the first witnesses called to the stand on Thursday was Leonard Meriaux, who bought the Cottrez family house and discovered the first corpse in the garden in 2010. He called police, who found another in the garden and six more in the garage of the house.

Investigators soon turned their suspicions to Cottrez, who quickly confessed. She told the investigating judge that she had never used contraception or had an abortion because of a phobia of doctors. She also said she did not keep the babies because she was afraid that they were the results of her incestuous relations with her father. She said the killing had become a “means of contraception”, according to the judicial documents.

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This woman should not be in court - she should be in a mental health institution.
Everyday I love my parents more.

[get the red out]

1. I agree

But I worry no one will care that she was also a victim because of babies. Even though she was practically a baby when her torment began.

[handmade34]

2. "This woman should not be in court"

yes