A Finnish court sentenced a 36-year-old woman to life in prison for killing her five newborns and hiding them in a freezer. The court in western Finland found the woman guilty of five counts of murder and disturbing the peace of the dead for failing to give the babies proper burials. “The homicides took place by leaving the newborns without care... This measure... Caused agony to the babies,” the court said in its ruling.
The woman, who has a 14-year-old son, had pleaded innocent and said the babies were all stillborn. But the court ruled on the basis of dental examinations that at least some of the babies had lived for up to four days before dying in a bucket where she had left them.