Mother jailed for killing three newborns

JURORS yesterday sentenced a French woman to eight years in jail for killing three of her newborn babies, burning one corpse and hiding the others in a freezer.

Mother jailed for killing three newborns

Prosecutors had called for a 10-year sentence for Veronique Courjault, after she admitted to smothering two baby boys to death at her ex-pat home in South Korea in 2002 and 2003, and a third child born in France in 1999.

Wearing a navy blue and white checked shirt, her hair pulled back in a pony tail, the 41-year-old betrayed no emotion as her sentence was read out in the in the central French city of Tours.

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