Mother ‘relieved’ her secret of killing eight babies is out, says her lawyer

A FRENCH mother who killed eight of her newborn babies is relieved her deadly secret is finally out, her lawyer said.

Stunned relatives voiced disbelief that Dominique Cottrez, 45, hid eight pregnancies and births and smothered the newborns, whose bodies were found in bin bags in the quiet northern village of Villers-au-Tertre.

Cottrez, a nursing assistant, has been charged with multiple murders after police found the skeletal remains of the eight infants, buried in a garden and hidden under household clutter in a garage.