Eight Newborn Found Buried In Villers-au-Tertre France

Published : July 29, 2010 :: 17:07:50 [ 1,943 views ]

A couple have been arrested in France after bones wrapped in plastic was found in the garden of their previous home.

Pattaya 29th July 2010 [France] Bones of eight newborn have been found in the garden of a house of the previous owners and also at their present address in a northern village of France by police after being alerted by the new owners when they came across the bones while digging the garden.

Police along with sniffer dogs continued to search in Villers-aTerte, in the northern region of France after arresting a couple in their mid forties, believed to be the parents, who are to appear in court later today. They are at present being held on suspicion of concealing a corpse and the non- reporting of a crime.

A councilor for the area said the new owners of the house had called in the police on Saturday after the gruesome discovery of the bones of infants in the garden they were digging. The house was believed to have belonged to the father of the arrested woman.

It has been reported that this follows numerous cases in recent years of the death of newborns. A mother confessed to having killed six of her newborn and hiding them in the basement of her house in north-west France in March.