Frenchwoman accused of killing 6 of her infants
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A 38-year-old woman went on trial Monday in northwest France, accused of killing six of her newborns and hiding the corpses in bags in her basement. Celine Lesage faces life in prison if convicted by the jury in the courthouse in Valognes, near the Atlantic coast, on charges of aggravated homicide.
She was arrested in 2007 after her partner at the time discovered the corpses in plastic garbage bags in the basement of their apartment building in Valognes. Her lawyer Veronique Carre said Lesage "does not contest the facts ... but isn't explaining them either." Several medical and psychological experts are expected to testify in the four-day trial. (AP)
