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French court jails mother who murdered five of her babies
At the end of a week-long trial, a court in Bordeaux has sentenced Ramona Canete, 37, to eight years in prison for murdering over a period of ten years five of her newborn babies whose bodies she hid from her family in a freezer.
French mother stands trial accused of killing five of her babies
Ramona Hernandez-Canete, 37, was arrested after one of her teenage children found the corpse of a newborn baby in a laundry basket, before four more bodies of babies were discovered in a freezer at her home in south-west France.
Five dead babies found in SW France home
Four bodies were found in a deep-freeze unit and another in the bedroom of a couple with two teenage daughters at their house near Bordeaux.
French court awards 1.8mln euros to families for babies switched at birth
Two mothers unwittingly left a Cannes maternity clinic in 1994 with the other's daughter after incubator mixup revealed years later by DNA test.
Families of girls switched at birth sue French clinic for €12 million
The families of the two babies only found out about the hospital mix-up in the south of France when the girls were aged ten.
France recalls nutrient bags that killed 3 newborns in December
Several unused IV nutrient bags from the same batch given to the newborns who died were found to have traces of bacteria, says hospital.