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Police find five dead babies in home in southern France

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Police find five dead babies in home in southern France
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French police have found the bodies of five babies in cardboard boxes at the home of a couple in southeast France, several sources said on Tuesday.

Police made the discovery in the town of Orange in the Vaucluse département after the woman gave birth to a healthy baby on Monday, sources close to the investigation said, without providing details.

In March, a French court jailed a 44-year-old woman for 25 years over the deaths of two of her newborn babies, who police found in the family freezer.

In 2018, a court sentenced a woman with a depressive and sometimes violent husband to eight years in prison for drowning five of her newborn babies and freezing their bodies.

In 2015, another court jailed a mother for nine years for killing eight of her newborns, with the jury finding she had impaired judgement.

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Jon
How is this written. It’s bizarre. Are the stories linked ?

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