Corpses of two newborn girls who ‘did not die naturally’ are discovered in fridge freezer

A woman has been arrested after the corpses of two newborn girls who allegedly did not die naturally were discovered in a fridge freezer at a French home. 

Their bodies were found at the home of the 41-year-old last Thursday in the southern village of Bedoin after police received a telephone tip-off from an unknown man.

The woman was charged on Friday on suspicion of the murder of two minors. It is not known if she is the mother of the victims.  

Prosecutor Florence Galtier, in the southern town of Avignon, said, citing an autopsy: ‘The two children were not stillborn.’ 

One of the babies had suffered a blow which left ‘cranial and intracranial’ bruising, believed to be the cause of death.   

The prosecutor said it was not clear if the injuries were the result of violence, a fall, lack of care or something else. 

Authorities have yet to establish if the girls were twins or are unrelated. It is unclear if the man who made the tip-off is connected to the case. 

There have been similar cases in France over the years.  

Last March, a woman in her 30s was placed under investigation after two frozen babies were found at her home.

In 2015, five bodies were found in a similar case which saw the mother handed an eight-year jail term.

Another case which went down in French legal annals was that of Veronique Courjault, given an eight-year sentence in 2009 for killing three of her newborn children.

The bodies of two of the children were discovered in a freezer in the home she shared with her husband in South Korea.