Posted on 08/02/2005 6:01:29 AM PDT by NYer
German police are holding a woman suspected of manslaughter after the bodies of nine new-born babies were found buried in a garden.
The 39-year-old woman is believed to be the mother of the children found in Brieskow-Finkenheerd, in Brandenburg state, near the border with Poland.
Police officers with sniffer dogs were searching the site for further remains.
The grim discovery of little bodies found buried in flower pots and buckets has shocked Germany.
It is thought that the babies were born, and died, between 1988 and 2004.
"We are looking at a crime on a scale that, as far as I can remember, has never been seen in the history of the Federal Republic," Brandenburg Interior Minister Joerg Schoenbohm said in a statement.
"We have to ask ourselves how this incredible crime remained hidden over all these years. It's a question directed at relatives, neighbours, doctors and the authorities."
The bodies were discovered after someone clearing a garage at the site found human bones stored in a fish tank, police said.
According to Reuters, the woman has said she was the mother of the babies but has not admitted killing them. A court spokesman said her statement was confused.
Other discoveries
The woman has been identified in the German press only as Sabine H. She is reported to be a jobless dental assistant who moved from the house, where her mother and eldest sister live, to nearby Frankfurt an der Oder.
Bild newspaper said she met her first boyfriend, a former East German army officer and Stasi employee, when she was 17 and they had a daughter in 1984. She had two more children in the following two years.
Berliner Zeitung says she has lived for several years in Frankfurt an der Oder with a man who is the father of her youngest child, 18-month-old Elisabeth. Three other children - aged 18, 19 and 20 - live with her first husband.
Neighbour Ulrich Heitmann, 69, told the newspaper: "Sabine was quite a normal girl, not stupid at all".
The finds come after other recent grim discoveries in Germany, says the Associated Press.
Last week, a dead baby girl was found in a public toilet in Magdeburg and a young boy was discovered on a recycling company's conveyer belt in Guetersloh.
A walker in Lower Saxony found a dead baby in a plastic bag in June.
The authorities in Austria are holding the parents of at least three of four children whose bodies were found in a freezer and concrete-filled buckets at their home.
Abortion devalues life ... if it's okay to kill them in the womb, well ....
SHe's like the Anti-Anne Geddes.
A 39-year old woman manages to give birth to nine children in a 63-month period? Quite a feat!
Of well, just a case of post-natal abortion. Just a bunch of dead babies - nothing to get upset about.
Maybe they send them to Frist who can extract some stem cells.
I'm sure tenured Princeton Professor Peter Singer would praise this act of infanticide.
Do they ever do Tubal Ligations in Germany?
Tragic/funny!
Disgusting.
She's a sociopath and should be locked up forever. Germany doesn't have the death penalty. Too bad.
Yes. That seems to be what makes this a crime. The fact that these murders were not done through the proper channels. The abortion clinics lost many sales. The baby parts supply chain lost access to many valuable baby parts. The medical research folks lost access to all those stem cells. And all those people waiting for a cure from embryonic stem cells are angry because these babies could have died to keep them alive or stop them from shaking or allow them to walk again. Now their deaths were for nothing but convenience, or to appease Molech, or whatever, so it is a crime like the FRG had never seen.
1988-2004 = 16 years = 192 months. Or have I had too much coffee this morning?
Sounds like she had about 12 or 13 children in that period if some are alive with ex husbands and such.
There are 16 years between '88 and '04 - a total of 192 months. During this time this woman could have exercised her "right to privacy" a total of 21 times... and that's not accounting for twins.
Apparently, she had seven more children that lived, according to the article, and these are only the ones we know about.
exactly, the culture of death spawns....deaths.
She's pregnant again atm. In the sixth month.
What's the big deal? Kill 'em in the womb, kill 'em in the bassinet. It's all the same.
How do we know they are all HER children?
I guess they don't have abortion clinics in der Federal Republic!
How do we know they are all HER children?
Good point - we do not know.
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