A French woman accused of killing eight of her newborns over more than a decade has been sentenced to nine years in prison.

A French woman has gone on trial accused of suffocating eight of her newborn babies after she told investigators that she feared they were from a long, incestuous relationship with her father.

A mother who is believed to have drowned her baby daughter before dumping the body over a garden fence while suffering from depression has been made the subject of a hospital order.