SHOCKING: Woman confesses to killing her EIGHT newborns and hiding the corpses in her home

Woman feared the babies were from incest relationship.

Dominique Cottrez, a 51-year-old French nurse, has confessed to killing her eight newborn babies, fearing they were from her incestuous relationship with her father. During her trial, she revealed the stories of murder she vividly remembers, dubbed the worst infanticide in the modern French history.

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - The first corpse was found in the garden, after the man now living in her former home was digging in 2010. Another one was then located and six more inside the garage, after a few days of searching.

Police contacted the previous home owners and learned the horrifying truth behind the dead babies - their own mother killed them and kept them inside the house.

Cottrez has two grown daughters, who initially believed the foul smell came from the sewage or even from their father's feet, not dead infants. Cottrez's obesity hid the pregnancies. She began to fear they were from the long incestuous relationship she had with her father, starting from rape as a child until becoming consensual.

The first murder occurred in 1989, when she strangled the baby boy with sheets. She put him inside a plastic bin bag then hid it inside her closet.

She gave birth to the second baby inside a hospital toilet, where she was confined for unrelated epileptic seizures. Cottrez confessed that she strangled the baby and wrapped it in plastic sheets and towels before placing it inside the hospital closet she later brought home. The others murders became blurred to her.

Her last birth and murder took place in 2000.

Her husband was initially accused of helping conceal the corpses and not reporting the murders, but was later freed due to lack of evidence. Cottrez is accused of multiple counts of first degree murders and faces life imprisonment if found guilty.

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