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A woman was arrested and charged with murder related charges after she admitted to killing her newborns and placing them in a freezer, according to court proceedings in France.
The French woman who has admitted to drowning her two newborn babies, whose bodies were found in her freezer, is a 32-year-old waitress. She was identified by authorities only as Madame C. She stated that she killed her two children, who were born alive, prosecutors said.
The woman was released from prison in 2010, five years after being convicted of killing another newborn, whose birth she had hidden from her friends and family. She put the body in a bag, and then persuaded her mother to leave the bag in an abandoned building. Madame C was initially sentenced to 15 years in prison for killing her newborn, while her mother received a prison sentence of 18 years.
In these two additional cases, a baby was born in the fall of 2011 and the other a year later. Detectives are examining the corpses to establish whether they were born dead or drowned after birth. One body was found by the boyfriend of Madame C in a freezer in the apartment of the defendant in Amberieu Sunday.
Then he called the police, who found the second body in the freezer. Police believe that the boyfriend, who has not been named, did not live with Madame C, but he was however, the father of the baby. Police also said that the boyfriend had no knowledge of the birth.
“The big mistake in this case was that this woman was released from prison way before the completion of her sentence which indirectly allowed her to kill another baby. This is very sad. I hope this time this woman will stay behind bars until she is unable to have any more children,” Janice Archer, 39, of Lyon France told YourJewishNews.com after learning about Madame C.
Madame C was taken into custody in Lyon, where prison officials have placed her on suicide watch.