A French nurse accused of suffocating eight of her newborn babies has gone on trial after telling investigators that the children were the result of a long, incestuous relationship with her father.
The worst infanticide case in modern French history stunned the country when the babies were discovered in the family garden in Villers-au-Tertre, near Lille in 2010.
Cottrez, who has two adult daughters and several grandchildren, told investigators that over more than a decade, she carried eight babies to term and then killed them.
From 1989 to 2007 Cottrez killed eight of her newborn children, burying two of them in her back garden and keeping the other six in plastic bin bags inside the family home.
The 20 stone nurse's obesity hid the pregnancies, which went unnoticed by her husband Pierre-Marie and their children.
Cottrez claims that she fell pregnant with the children as a result of having a long incestuous 'affair' with her father, farmer Oscar Lempereur, which she says began when she was a child.
source:DM
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