Nine years for baby-killing mother

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>A French woman accused of killing eight of her newborns over more than a decade has been sentenced to nine years in prison&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After deliberating a few hours in the northern city of Douai&comma; the jury returned its verdict – half as long as the 18-year prison term asked by the prosecutor against Dominique Cottrez&comma; a 51-year-old married mother&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The jury decided that her judgment was impaired at the time of the killings&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They convicted Cottrez of seven counts of first degree murders and one count of second degree murder for the first baby she killed in late 1989&period; The last infant was killed in 2000&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new owner of the Cottrez family’s house&comma; in a village in northern France&comma; discovered the dead babies in rubbish bags buried in the garden or hidden in the garage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Cottrez risked life in prison&period; But prosecutor Eric Vaillant in his closing arguments on Wednesday asked the court to grant the defendant &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;extenuating circumstances” because he said she suffered from psychological problems and from proven neuroses&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Her two living daughters – Emeline&comma; 28&comma; and Virginie&comma; 27 – implored the court not to send their mother back to jail&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Cottrez has already spent two years in prison for temporary detention at the beginning of the investigation&comma; and was then was released from jail in 2012&period; The mother&comma; who suffers from hyper-obesity as well&comma; was expected to spend the next night in prison&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For more than four years&comma; Cottrez convinced police investigators&comma; psychiatric experts&comma; the investigating judge and lawyers of a false story – that she had been raped by her father as a child and was then involved with him in a long&comma; incestuous relationship as a married woman&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In court&comma; she initially said she felt compelled to kill her babies because she feared they were the product of incest&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But she confessed to the court during Monday’s hearing that she had not been raped by her father&comma; her lawyers said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e490f555">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e490f555'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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