A French nurse-Dominique Cottrez who is accused of suffocating eight of her newborn babies is facing trial—but even though she admits killing these babies, she says she has a good defence.

Dominique Cottrez claims the children were the result of a long, incestuous relationship with her father.

The worst infanticide case in modern French history stunned the country when the babies were discovered in the family garden in Villers-au-Tertre, near Lille in 2010.

The 51-year-old grandmother faces spending the rest of her life in prison if she is found guilty.

According to MailOnline; “From 1989 to 2007 Cottrez killed eight of her newborn children, burying two of them in her back garden and keeping the other six in plastic bin bags inside the family home.
The 20 stone nurse’s obesity hid the pregnancies, which went unnoticed by her husband Pierre-Marie and their children.

Cottrez claims that she fell pregnant with the children as a result of having a long incestuous ‘affair’ with her father, farmer Oscar Lempereur, which she says began when she was a child.

Back in 2010, when the bodies of the eight newborns were first discovered, Cottrez’s two daughters paid tribute to their mother as ‘the best their is’ in an extraordinary show of support.”