Woman on trial for killing 8 newborns

A French woman has gone on trial accused of suffocating eight of her newborn babies after she told investigators that she feared they were from a long, incestuous relationship with her father.

Dominique Cottrez, 51, stands accused of multiple counts of first-degree murder of minors. She faces life in prison if found guilty.

The worst infanticide case in modern French history stunned the country when the bodies were discovered in and around the Cottrez family’s village home in 2010.