Former nurse concealed births of stillborn children found in attic

A FORMER nurse who admitted concealing the births of three of her children after their stillborn bodies were discovered in the attics of two former homes was yesterday sentenced to a 12-month community rehabilitation order.

Ann Mahoney, 63, was charged in May this year after a baby’s body was found in a suitcase in the attic of a former home in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, in March.

The grandmother was charged with two more counts of concealing a birth when the bodies of two more babies were found in the attic of her latest address in Forsythia Close on Merthyr Tydfil’s Gurnos estate. The mother-of-two, a well-known community volunteer, said after her arrest that all three children were stillborn and she used her own nursing skills to carry out deliveries.