A candle for babies who died in French house of horrors

THE priest lit candles and asked for prayers for the eight little babies whose lives were ended by the mother soon after she had brought each of them into the world.

Dominique Cottrez should not be judged, he told the congregation in the French village where the 45-year-old woman had spent all her life.

Instead they should leave the judicial authorities to do their job, and entrust the lives of the eight non baptised children to the mercy of God.