STRASBOURG, France: The mom of two infants discovered lifeless in a freezer in japanese France has been charged and positioned in pre-trial detention, a prosecutor advised AFP on Friday (Feb 13).
The case is the newest suspected occasion of infanticide to emerge in France lately.
Prosecutor Cedric Logelin advised AFP the 50-year-old girl was charged late on Thursday, a day after she was arrested within the western Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt and admitted to freezing her newborns.
Nobody else has been charged, he added.
The grim discovery was made after the girl, who had 9 youngsters from three completely different fathers, had abruptly left the household house within the japanese city of Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont in December.
She left behind 4 of her youngsters, aged 14 to twenty, their father and a fifth youngster from one other relationship.
On Tuesday, a member of the family found the physique of a new child in a freezer.
After the household raised the alarm, police found a second physique in the identical freezer, wrapped in a bag.
Suspicion shortly centered on the mom.
The girl had worn loose-fitting garments to cover the pregnancies from her household and associates, the prosecutor had defined.
The suspect was unable to say when precisely the infants had been born, however mentioned the kids had been born between 2011 and 2018.
“Throughout questioning, she cried very incessantly and mentioned she felt sorry for her youngsters and her household,” the prosecutor had mentioned.
An post-mortem will likely be carried out on Friday to find out the precise circumstances of the infants’ deaths.
