Eight Infants Found Dead

Mushy

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The corpses were discovered in individual plastic bags hidden around two houses in the tiny village of Villers-au-Tertre, about 35 miles from Lille.

Police were alerted after a family moved into their new home and found infant bones in the garden.

Officers traced the previous occupants, who were living less than a mile away in the hamlet.

Sniffer dogs found the bodies of more new-born babies there.

"Two people are being held in custody. They are the mother and father of the children," said public prosecutor Eric Vaillant.

Newspaper reports in France said the unnamed couple are both in their 40s.

Le Figaro said two of the bodies had been hidden in the first house for more than 20 years.

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Local paper L'Observateur Douaisis said: "The couple will appear before a magistrate on Thursday morning charged with harbouring dead bodies."

It said the charges could be strengthened to murder as the forensic investigation continues.

France has seen a string of cases in recent years of mothers killing their new-born babies and hiding the corpses.

In March, a 38-year-old mother was jailed for 15 years for killing six of her newborn babies and hiding their bodies in bin liners in the cellar of her home in Valognes, near Cherbourg.

Céline Lesage was found guilty of suffocating four babies and strangling two others after giving birth to them in secret between 2000 and 2007.

Another French woman, Veronique Courjault, was convicted last year of murdering three of her new-born children.

Her husband discovered two of the corpses in a freezer while the two were living in South Korea.

During the trial, psychiatrists said she suffered from a condition known as "pregnancy denial."

Really don't know what to make of this. Some seriously twisted stuff goes on out there.

Hoping nobody comes up with any quick puns for this one!

gu10

Quick, somebody blame the Catholic church for this or even just religion!

caseyann

The poor babies

The evil scum in the world.

Pregnancy denial? Another excuse :mad:

zuroph

Mushy wrote: »

Hoping nobody comes up with any quick puns for this one!

liar.

Biggins

Terrible and sad story. This is one I most definitely do not see as a subject to see humour in.

May they rest in peace, blessed little angels. Amen.

gungun

Jesus Christ, that's messed up.:(

RIP

longhalloween

Mushy wrote: »

Hoping nobody comes up with any quick puns for this one!

Then you really came to the wrong place...:D:D (inserts dead baby joke)

ottostreet

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back to being serious, this is shocking...whats with the french endemic of baby killing?

anniehoo

Horrendous,depressing...fcuked up fullstop If you can find something "funny" to say...well...

TanG411

I remember a story similar to this which happened in the early 20th century. A couple used to mind children for young mothers, but they suffocated the children instead and buried them in the garden.

When the mothers wanted to see thei children, they wouldn't let them. They even took money from the mothers long after the babies were killed.

When they were caught, they were hanged.

genericguy

ottostreet wrote: »

back to being serious, this is shocking...whats with the french endemic of baby killing?

they're sick of being famous for surrendering.

dr.bollocko

longhalloween wrote: »

Then you really came to the wrong place...:D:D (inserts dead baby joke)

No. In fact they haven't. Lets hold off on the dead baby jokes for the sake of a bit of decency on this thread please folks.

Rhyme

Sky News wrote:

A couple have been arrested after the bodies of eight new-born babies were found in northern France.
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*cough*


But yeah, some broken people involved here.

ottostreet

dr.bollocko wrote: »

No. In fact they haven't. Lets hold off on the dead baby jokes for the sake of a bit of decency on this thread please folks.

sorry man

RachPie

This is really sad.
Can't believe some people out there are so cruel. RIP.

Mushy

gu10 wrote: »

Quick, somebody blame the Catholic church for this or even just religion!

I was gonna put it in brackets, along the lines of (not related to religion). Then I'd only be accused of trying to incite religious hatred and taking away from the disgusting nature of the story.

Wonder where pregnancy denial came out of? A pathetic excuse tbh.

Hank_Jones

I really don't understand how people don't notice that these women are pregnant, unless they don't leave the house at all.

Surely they would have to though, and having that many, it would have to be noticeable.

To kill a child, don't know how somebody could live with themselves.

bnt

Looks like the number may rise. The Guardian says:

According to French radio, the arrested woman – a mother of two – told police that the corpses are those of two newborn babies to whom she gave birth in secret. RTL said she had admitted killing "a dozen" others since 1988, and kept her actions from her husband.

alwaysadub

was only reading about that a while back. It's awful. If they didn't want kids, they should've used protection or got the snip or tubes tied or something. How could they live knowing their dead babies were in the house.

RIP.

Biggins

As a parent of four beautiful young children this story really hits me hard as I think of their smiling faces looking up at me every morning, they being delighted to see me.

There is no understanding of anyone that can do this terrible, horrorfying act. It is truly beyond me.
I don't know what else to say.

KittyeeTrix

Sad. Just horribly sad:(

entrep

Rest in Peace, little ones xx

Not sound..

DazMarz

As someone who, at the back of it all (and despite my giving out about them!), loves kids and thinks they're so cool, this breaks my heart. The poor little mites...

I hope that wherever they are now, that they don't know the pain and suffering that was inflicted upon them in this life...

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Sometimes I hear a story that just astounds me, I can't even begin to comprehend such a frame of mind that someone must be in to do this. Babies ffs

MagicMarker

[Chris Rock Voice] That's fúcked up! [/Chris Rock Voice]

genericguy

MagicMarker wrote: »

[Chris Rock Voice] That's fúcked up! [/Chris Rock Voice]

is that you, little kid from across the street? let me hold a dollar!

Zombienosh

This is messed up, but sadly its not new.... I've heard too many stories all too similar.

SadieSue

Awe that's so sad and messed up Poor things.
The pure gruesome factor makes me shiver.

JuliusCaesar

Infanticide has occurred in every culture on every continent throughout history. Linkie.

It has been a primitive method of family planning and also of population control. Mothers have killed their newborns for many reasons (shame being a popular one in Ireland, where women are held to blame for being 'immoral'* - remember the Magdelene Laundries?) and also because of psychiatric disorders.


*(Not so far away from the 100 lashes for the single pregnant girl in Pakistan or wherever - oh those immoral women who do be corrupting our men!)

spinandscribble

so she says she gave birth to two of the six found dead? where did she get the other two? and how does a husband not notice wifey preggy and then unpreggy?

Daisy Steiner

RIP all those poor babógs

Hope the mother gets the help she needs

Btw . . . denial of pregnancy is a very real syndrome. I don't know if the mother in this case suffered from it but a little less of the calls of bull**** please.

caseyann wrote: »

Pregnancy denial? Another excuse :mad:

Mushy wrote: »

Wonder where pregnancy denial came out of? A pathetic excuse tbh.

http://organizedwisdom.com/Denial_of_Pregnancy

Sanjuro

Hang on a second, I may be missing a detail or two on this story. They were their own babies? Christ, you think you've heard some pretty messed up things in your life, and then you hear something like this.

Dudess

gu10 wrote: »

Quick, somebody blame the Catholic church for this or even just religion!

Nah, that just happens when there's widespread child abuse by members of catholic orders and the church conspires in their protection.

Dudess

Daisy Steiner wrote: »

Btw . . . denial of pregnancy is a very real syndrome. I don't know if the mother in this case suffered from it but a little less of the calls of bull**** please.






http://organizedwisdom.com/Denial_of_Pregnancy

+1. Even if it isn't much of an excuse, it's an explanation.

mike65

This sort of thing is hardly rare, Annie Lovett went to her death at a grotto secretly pregnant, the Kerry Babies is another and yet to be solved...

Dudess

Don't think Anne Lovett killed her baby though...

mike65

No but she was pregnant for all (not) to see, or maybe be willing to see. Ireland was well and truely messed up back then. We live in an age of enlightenment by comparison.

Wazdakka

+1 despair at humankind.

xzanti

Absolutely shocking.. I wonder who the babies belonged to.. I'm sure if will all come out in the wash..

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/France-Bodies-Of-Eight-Newborn-Babies-Found-In-Villers-Au-Tertre-Northern-France---Couple-Held/Article/201007415672569?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_1&lid=ARTICLE_15672569_France%3A_Bodies_Of_Eight_Newborn_Babies_Found_In_Villers-Au-Tertre%2C_Northern_France_-_Couple_Held

A couple have been arrested after the bodies of eight newborn babies were found in northern France.
The corpses were discovered in individual plastic bags hidden around two houses in the tiny village of Villers-au-Tertre, about 35 miles from Lille.

Police were alerted after a family moved into their new home and found infant bones while digging a swimming pool in the garden.

The bodies of two babies were found at that site.

Officers traced the previous occupants, who were living less than a mile away in the hamlet.

Sniffer dogs found the bodies of six more newborn babies there.

"Two people are being held in custody. They are the mother and father of the children," said public prosecutor Eric Vaillant.

A local councillor said the unnamed couple are both in their 40s. He said the husband is a builder and his wife a nursing assistant.

Le Figaro newspaper said two of the bodies had been hidden in the first house for more than 20 years.
Sky's Alex Rossi, at the scene, said: "Investigations are continuing but the couple have been charged with burying bodies illegally.

"But we are told these charges may be increased to manslaughter or murder depending on the direction this case takes.

"Although investigators are warning that the couple should not be judged by the media, as they say at this stage there may be extenuating circumstances."

The former mayor of the village, Daniel Collignon, said he was "still in shock" after hearing the news.

easyeason3

Thread on this already I think.

kfallon

I am shocked....and I'm not shocked very easily!

xzanti

easyeason3 wrote: »

Thread on this already I think.

Where? I couldn't see one open..

stovelid

xzanti wrote: »

I wonder who the babies belonged to..

Their own, more than likely?

losthorizon

The mother has admitted killing 12 according to euronews this morning.

Last march in a separate case a woman was arrested afted 6 infant bodies were discovered in France.

easyeason3

xzanti wrote: »

Where? I couldn't see one open..

Somewhere in AH, was posted last night by Biggins I think.
I'd link it but i don't know how

xzanti

stovelid wrote: »

Their own, more than likely?

True, the theft of 8 babies would hardly go that long under the radar.. Sick world..

xzanti

easyeason3 wrote: »

Somewhere in AH, was posted last night by Biggins I think.
I'd link it but i don't know how

Just click on the thread title and select 'copy shortcut' then paste into the new thread.. for future reference

easyeason3

xzanti wrote: »

Just click on the thread title and select 'copy shortcut' then paste into the new thread.. for future reference

For that I'll find last nights thread.

Thanks!

TanG411

easyeason3 wrote: »

Somewhere in AH, was posted last night by Biggins I think.
I'd link it but i couldn't be bothered:o

Fixed.

easyeason3

HERE!!!!!!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055983177


EDIT: Thats a right little tip, I'll be copying & pasting threads for the day now!