Serial killer mum in France killed her six babies and hid bodies in cellar...

A mother appeared in court today accused of murdering six of her newborn children in as many years and hiding their tiny corpses in a cellar.

In one of the worst infanticide cases in history, 38-year-old Celine Lesage faces life in prison for 'aggravated homicide'.

She is said to have strangled two of her children with a cord and choked four others by placing her finger in their mouths.

Each of the babies had been delivered 'in secret' between August 2000 and September 2007, with Lesage 'putting the babies and their dirty clothes neatly in a sealed plastic bag and hiding them', according to Cherbourg prosecutor Michel Garrandaux. More...

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