The Supreme Court has upheld a verdict of 25 years of imprisonment for a woman who killed five new-born babies, and eight years for her husband, for inciting her to the crime.
The bodies of the new-borns were discovered in 2003 in the locality of Czerniejów, Lublin province.
They were kept in a plastic barrel in the couple’s home. An earlier verdict convicted the husband to 12 years for incitement to five murders but the court decided there was evidence only in respect of one.
Between 1992 and 1998 the woman had given birth to four boys and one girl. She told investigators that she drowned the new-borns, then kept their bodies in the freezer. Later, when the family moved, she transferred them to a barrel where they were discovered by the couple’s small daughters.
The man denied in court that he was aware his wife had been pregnant. (ek)