French woman jailed for 8 years in frozen babies case...

A Frenchwoman who strangled three of her newborn babies and stored two of them in the family freezer was sentenced to eight years in jail on Thursday after a trial that focussed on her psychiatric problems.

The case of Veronique Courjault, who gave birth in secret three times between 1999 and 2003, came to light in 2006 when her husband, trying to make space in the freezer, found the frozen bodies of two babies he had no idea were his own.

"I am aware that I killed my children and that will stay with me forever," a tearful Veronique Courjault, 41, told the court before the sentence was handed down. More...

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