Trial opens of French woman accused of killing eight of her newborn babies

Source: The Guardian

Dominique Cottrez tells investigators she feared children were result of incestuous relationship with her father.

Cottrez is on trial charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder of minors. She faces life in prison if found guilty by a jury in the northern city of Douai.



Cottrez, 51, who has two adult daughters, told investigators that over more than a decade, she carried several babies to term and then killed them. Cottrez’s obesity appeared to hide the pregnancies, which went unnoticed by her husband, children, neighbours, colleagues and even doctors at a nearby hospital.

Cottrez told investigators she was raped by her father, first when she was eight and repeatedly through her childhood and teenage years, according to judicial documents. She later entered a long, incestuous relationship with him as an adult, including after she married. She said it became consenting, and she was in love with her father more than with her husband. Her father died in 2007.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/25/french-woman-on-trial-accused-of-suffocating-eight-of-her-newborn-babies

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Such a tragic story. Here is a domestic case of Stockholm Syndrome. What kind of twisted monster was the father?

for her and her dead infants.