Dominique Cottrez, 50, is said to have killed the eight of her newborn children and hid their bodies in bin liners between 1989 and 2000 because she did not want to use contraception.
The nurse assistant who admitted infanticide of strangling and burying eight of her newborn babies will be tried in France four years after her atrocities.
"The first macabre discoveries were made four years ago when the new owners of a house in the village of Villiers-sur-Tertre, northern France, found human bones in their garden while digging a pond.
"They alerted police, who found the remains of two children which had been there since the Cottrez family moved out in 1991.
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| House where two remains were found |
After tracking Dominique and husband Pierre-Marie Cottrez to another house just half a mile away, they found the bodies of six more children buried in the garden in black bin liners.
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| Second house were 6 remains found |
Public prosecutor Eric Vaillant told an initial court hearing in 2010 how Cottrez, who was obese, had managed to hide her pregnancies within her 20-stone frame.
She managed to hide the fact she was pregnant because she was very overweight,' he said.
"She told investigators that when she became aware she was pregnant she decided she did not want any more children but also did not want to see a doctor for contraception.
"She has admitted giving birth in secret and then suffocating the babies and disposing of the bodies.
"Husband Pierre-Marie Cottrez, 48, has denied knowing about the babies being born or killed.
"The couple have two surviving daughters, Virginie, 22, and Emeline, 23 - who have one son each. Emeline described her mother as a 'doting granny' to her child.
"She said after the crimes were discovered: 'It's incomprehensible that our mother could have done this.'She was a good, loving grandmother, and we were happy to leave our children with her."
Credit: Daily mail
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