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Woman quizzed after dead babies found in freezer
Police on Monday confirmed the grisly find the night before in the town of Wenden, near Olpe, in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia after the woman turned herself in, officials said.
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- Published: 00:36 May 7, 2008
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- Police officers and media stand in front of a house in Wenden, Germany, on Monday, after police found bodies of three babies in a freezer.
Olpe, Germany: A 44-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of killing her own babies after her grown children found the bodies of three infants stashed in the family's freezer when looking for a frozen pizza, police said.
Police on Monday confirmed the grisly find the night before in the town of Wenden, near Olpe, in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia after the woman turned herself in, officials said.
The three infants are believed to have been born alive, but authorities were awaiting autopsy results to determine how they died, said Johannes Daheim, a spokesman for prosecutors investigating the case.
The woman, her 47-year-old husband and three adult children - two sons, aged 18 and 22, and a 24-year-old daughter - have lived in the town in a single-family home since 1984, and the news of the discovery took other residents aback.
"I've been mayor for 14 years, and this is definitely the worst day I've seen," said Peter Brueser. "We will need a long time here to work through this."
The corpulent woman apparently concealed the three pregnancies, believed to have been in the 1980s, not only from neighbours but also her own family, said Herbert Fingerhut, head of the police investigation, at a news conference.
"It sounds unbelievable, but there are examples showing such things are possible," he said.
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