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A woman in France has admitted killing her eight newborn babies but said her husband knew nothing about it, the prosecutor in the case has said. The mother placed their dead bodies in hermetically sealed plastic bags and hiding them from her family over a 17-year periodEarlier French police detained a husband and wife after discovering the corpses of eight new-born babies in the village of Villers-au-Tertre in northern France, police and judicial officials said.The couple in their 40s has been held in custody since the bodies were found at two different sites in the village and a criminal investigation is under way, police said. Police and police dogs searched one of the houses where some of the corpses were found, as neighbours looked on. A public prosecutor Eric Vaillant told that two people who are the mother and father of the children were being held in custody.
