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Woman admits to freezing twins
12/10/2006 16:39 - (SA)
Paris - A 38-year-old French woman has admitted giving birth to and killing twin infants found frozen in July in her home in the South Korean capital of Seoul, her lawyer said on Thursday in Paris.
"Veronique Courjault has confessed to the crime of infanticide," Marc Morin told France Info radio. "She said that she acted alone and without the knowledge of her husband."
Her husband discovered the cadavers in the freezer of their home in Seoul and immediately notified the police. DNA tests carried out by South Korean police revealed that they were the parents of the infants.
However, on holiday in France at the time, they denied that they were the parents of the dead children and refused to return to the country. A DNA test administered in France confirmed the results of the Korean test.
The daily Liberation reported on Thursday that Veronique Courjault admitted to police that she had concealed her pregnancy from her husband, who was often away from home on business, and gave birth to the twins alone, in the bathroom of her home.
'Did not want these children'
Already the mother of two boys, now aged 10 and 11, she reportedly told police that she "did not want these children".
However, French investigators are puzzled, the newspaper reported. They doubt that she could have concealed for nine months being pregnant with two children who at birth weighed 3.6kg and 3.2kg.
"Everything seems bizarre in this affair," one investigator told the daily. "We have numerous doubts about their intimate and sexual relationship and also their social relationship."
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