Berlin: A German court has convicted a woman of manslaughter for killing two of
her newborn babies, whose bodies she kept in the freezer.
News
agency dpa reports that the state court in Halle sentenced the
46-year-old defendant today to nine-and-a-half years in prison. She had
admitted secretly giving birth to a girl in 2004 and a boy in 2008 and
killing them.
The bodies were put in plastic bags in the freezer,
where police found them earlier this year. Autopsies found that the
babies had been suffocated.
The woman's lawyers said she had
faced pressure from her then-partner, who didn't want more children
beyond the two they had. The former partner, who is accused of knowing
about at least one of the frozen bodies, is also under investigation.
