The couple had been arguing over what was in the boxes just a day after the wife gave birth following a pregnancy she denied – the couple have three living children
A man has found the remains of five babies stuffed into cardboard boxes.
The horrific discoveries were made at a house in France’s Provence region on Monday, July 29. The man and his wife cannot be named for legal reasons.
The couple had been arguing over what was in the boxes just a day after giving birth following a pregnancy she denied. This was the the third time she had denied being pregnant, according to media reports.
The woman began suffering from abdominal pains and went to hospital while her husband stayed behind.
According to reports from the Daily Mail, a source said the man “looked inside the cardboard boxes they had been arguing over – that’s when he found the five dead babies”.
The source said they were all “decomposing, and had been around for quite a while”.
The husband notified police who are now investigating the incident.
The couple have three living children, aged eight, twelve and the newborn.
Medical examinations will determine the exact nature of the remains, as well as the circumstances and date of their deaths, with the first forensic examinations, including autopsies carried out today (Wednesday, July 29).
No arrests have been made connection with the case.
The case has drawn parallels to several other newborn murder cases in the country.
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 to eight years in prison for drowning five of her new-born babies and freezing their bodies.
In 2015, a 45-year-old nursing assistant from northern France confessed to killing her eight newborns at birth and hiding their bodies. The murders were committed between 1989 and 2006, by suffocating eight of her children shortly after giving birth.
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