Death threats send mother of octuplets into hiding

California’s octuplets mother, already jobless and receiving food stamps, has gone into hiding with her six older children because of death threats, her spokesman has admitted.

Nadya Suleman, 33, has come under mounting public ridicule for expanding her already large family via fertility treatments that led to the birth of six boys and two girls at a Los Angeles-area hospital on January 26.

That criticism has mushroomed as it was reported that she was divorced, living with her parents, unemployed for several years, receiving disability cheques for three of her children — one of whom is autistic — and collecting nearly $500 (e389) a month in food stamps.