So its not only in Nigeria that we hear such gruesome news. About five dead babies have been found in a French house, with four of them concealed inside a deep freezer.
The discovery was made by a 40-year-old father of two reported to the police that he had found a new-born baby inside a portable cooler at his family bungalow in Louchats, close to Bordeaux.
After conducting a full search of the property, French police discovered the remains of four other babies inside a freezer.
The man’s 35-year-old wife was immediately rushed to hospital for psychiatric evaluation, while her husband, who has since been arrested, told investigators that he and his two teenage daughters, were not aware of the five pregnancies.
It is thought that the woman had ‘secretly given birth, within the last 48 hours’
According to reports, local residents had recently seen the woman and said that she did not appear to be pregnant, a claim supported by an unnamed relative of the father.
Philip Carreyre, the Mayor of Louchats, said: ‘I will not say anything about this. The only thing I can point out is that these are good people perfectly integrated in the town’.
A police spokeswoman added that the woman ‘does not appear to have a history of mental illness’.
The morbid discovery is the latest in a series of infanticides in France over recent years.
