Woman who hid dead babies in freezer jailed
The Local · 15 Nov 2010, 18:27
Published: 15 Nov 2010 18:27 GMT+01:00
The court in the western German city convicted the 46-year-old housewife Monika Halbe of two counts of manslaughter, a spokesman said.
She was not tried in connection with a third baby, also found in the basement freezer and who died over 20 years ago, because the statute of limitations on the case had expired.
Halbe was convicted two years ago to four years and three months by another court but the prosecution appealed the sentence, calling for eight years.
During a five-day trial in 2008, Halbe had admitted to hiding the bodies of three baby girls in the family freezer, but had denied killing them.
In a case that made national headlines, it was the defendant's 18-year-old son who discovered the girls' tiny corpses in plastic bags when looking for a pizza in the freezer.
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Europeans are such wimps. Your senses of compassion are simply bizarre.
Except when it is the "lesser" crime of manslaughter.
Weird justice in this country...
If this woman had murdered her babies before they were born nobody would be batting an eye, hell there wouldn't even be a news article about it. Yet somehow this is more evil than vacuuming out babies with a Hoover.
Seems like life is only precious once the baby breathes. Hypocrites!
I'm not speaking to you Nathaniel specifically, I find it rather confusing when there's some news story about a depraved parent that goes bat crap crazy and kills their child/ren and everyone that supports abortion acts sooooo shocked. It's the same damn thing, killing babies is killing babies wether they breathe air or not.
5 years might be just enough time for her to get out and kill a couple more before the onset menopause. 15 years would just be cruel.