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Baby Found in Freezer in Paris

Posted Mar 26, 2008 by  Debra Myers (skyangel) in Crime | 15 comments | 323 views
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Another disturbing case of infanticide has come to light Tuesday in Paris. A French couple has been detained after a relative found a baby in their freezer. This is the fourth infanticide case to hit France in the last two years.
PARIS - This weekend, the grandfather of the dead child came across the infant's body in the couple's freezer, in the north-west region of Brittany.

The mother of the deceased infant said that she had the baby last July, and could not remember what had happened to the baby. The husband claims he did not know his wife had been pregnant.

The post-mortem autopsy hints that the baby died soon after it was born.

Prosecutor Marie-Sophie Monet said,
"There were signs it had been hit ... and there were signs of strangulation."


Earlier this month, it was ordered that another French woman, Veronique Courjault will be standing trial for strangling three babies that she had given birth to -- one in France and two in South Korea.

Then, in August 2007, the bodies of three newborn babies were found in the house of a woman in south eastern France. That following October, the bodies of six newborn babies were discovered in [a] town in the north of France.
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  • avatar Posted Mar 26, 2008 by  Bob Ewing
    #1
    I never really know what to say when I read a story about a parent or parents killing their children; words just seem to be too insignificant for this act.
  • avatar Posted Mar 26, 2008 by  Debra Myers (skyangel)
    #2
    @ Bob Ewing
    I never really know what to say when I read a story about a parent or parents killing their children; words just seem to be too insignificant for this act.


    That's for sure. I don't buy the parent's stories though. Sounds like mom wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed if she can't remember what happened to the baby.
  • avatar Posted Mar 26, 2008 by  Bob Ewing
    #3
    @ Debra Myers (skyangel)
    That's for sure. I don't buy the parent's stories though. Sounds like mom wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed if she can't remember what happened to the baby.

    there is certainly something wrong here.
  • avatar Posted Mar 26, 2008 by  Debra Myers (skyangel)
    #4
    @ Bob Ewing
    there is certainly something wrong here.


    Yes...there is.
  • avatar Posted Mar 26, 2008 by  Chris V. (cgull)
    #5
    They killed six babies, why do they go through labor for 10 months only to kill them. They can just use condoms if they don't like babies.
  • avatar Posted Mar 26, 2008 by  Susan Duclos
    #6
    Unreal. These stories are so disturbing.
  • avatar Posted Mar 26, 2008 by  Gar Swaffar
    #7
    If only....
    There have been at least two infanticides in the US in the last two weeks. One in Mo.. one in California.
    And it is a crime I just can't wrap my brain around. How it happens to be an act completed is beyond my comprehension.
  • avatar Posted Mar 26, 2008 by  Nikki W (karateblossom)
    #8
    Here is another one of those things I just don't comprehend. Consequence of unprotected sex is pregnancy....and there are options I guess murdering your own innocent defenseless baby being one of them

    Guess the consequences for that choice aren't harsh enough to balance out the original act!

    Its not like they don't have options! Its not like there aren't wonderful people who would love to take the child! Selfish mindless souless blackhearted people with reproductive capabilities!

    sad
  • avatar Posted Mar 26, 2008 by  Cynthia T. [Picasso]
    #9
    How someone can take a tiny little human being and murder it is beyond my comprehension.
  • avatar Posted Mar 27, 2008 by  Michelle D. (PlanetJanet)
    #10
    Un-bloomin-believable!!!!!
  • avatar Posted Mar 27, 2008 by  Debra Myers (skyangel)
    #11
    Thanks, everyone for your comments. I don't understand this either, it's not like we live in the dark ages. I find it so hard to comprehend a mother taking the lives of her babies, which she carried for 9 months. Something is definitely broke in these women...mentally.
  • rabidsquirrelninja Posted Mar 27, 2008 by  rabidsquirrelninja
    #12
    I read this story in an online national French newspaper this morning and the story was so bizarre that I thought that I had forgotten how to speak French. Seriously, I stopped reading halfway through because I thought perhaps the language was too elevated for me to understand because it was starting to read like a morbid farce. But it turns out the story really is that sordid.

    Just a few details to add. The incident occurred on a farm in Brittany rather than Paris, the very picturesque, pastoral province of Côtes d'Armor. The legal precedings might very well be occurring in Paris, just two(ish) hours away. Additionally, the woman's husband claimed he didn't know that she was pregnant because she is apparently very fat. The infant was found by the grandfather who I beleive was visiting for Easter holiday; not sure on that because it was about that time I decided that the French had changed the meaning of half their words without me knowing.

    In all a horrific, atypical story I that I was very surprised to find in a French newspaper. (Side note: I suppose it serves as sad commentary that I would not be the least surprised if this were an American story (but nonetheless horrified, mind you!))
  • avatar Posted Mar 28, 2008 by  Debra Myers (skyangel)
    #13
    @ rabidsquirrelninja
    I read this story in an online national French newspaper this morning and the story was so bizarre that I thought that I had forgotten how to speak French. Seriously, I stopped reading halfway through because I thought perhaps the language was too elevated for me to understand because it was starting to read like a morbid farce. But it turns out the story really is that sordid.

    Just a few details to add. The incident occurred on a farm in Brittany rather than Paris, the very picturesque, pastoral province of Côtes d'Armor. The legal precedings might very well be occurring in Paris, just two(ish) hours away. Additionally, the woman's husband claimed he didn't know that she was pregnant because she is apparently very fat. The infant was found by the grandfather who I beleive was visiting for Easter holiday; not sure on that because it was about that time I decided that the French had changed the meaning of half their words without me knowing.

    In all a horrific, atypical story I that I was very surprised to find in a French newspaper. (Side note: I suppose it serves as sad commentary that I would not be the least surprised if this were an American story (but nonetheless horrified, mind you!))


    Thanks, rabidsquirrelninja for adding what you did! I see that you are new to DJ, so welcome! I hope that you enjoy it here!

    Yes, no matter where something like this happens, it is horrific. I can understand the husband's point that if she were obese, yeah...how would he know she was pregnant? But I don't necessarily buy that either. Not to be too graphic here but seems like hubby would know if wifey failed to have her monthly periods....IMO. Unless....they did not sleep together or get together very often.
  • avatar Posted Mar 28, 2008 by  docsangel31701
    #14
    What are these people thinking??? Coming from a mother of 4, how could someone do that to their own child? These people need to be given the death penalty. I cannot believe that there are people out there that care that little for a baby that they can kill it and act like nothing ever happened.
  • avatar Posted Mar 28, 2008 by  Debra Myers (skyangel)
    #15
    @ docsangel31701
    What are these people thinking??? Coming from a mother of 4, how could someone do that to their own child? These people need to be given the death penalty. I cannot believe that there are people out there that care that little for a baby that they can kill it and act like nothing ever happened.


    Thanks for your thoughts on this, docsangel. I don't understand it either, and I am mother to 3 and grandmom to 5-going on 6 grandchildren/babies. I don't buy the parents stories...either.

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