Mother murdered her babies and stored bodies in freezer

 

Last updated at 18:57pm on 13th October 2006

Veronique Courjault

 

 

 

A mother who was tired of having children murdered three of her new born babies, storing two of their bodies in her freezer which she referred to as "the family tomb".

Veronique Courjault, a 38-year-old French woman who had two children now aged 10 and 11, suffocated each of the children, who were born in secret.

As she was put on remand in the town of Orleans, south of Paris, her 40-year-old husband Jean-Louis Courjault said he had known nothing about the crimes.

They emerged in July after police in Seoul, South Korea - where the couple were working as expatriates - found two of the babies in their freezer.

At first Mrs Courjault refused to even admit that the babies were hers, but DNA tests proved otherwise.

Yesterday she finally admitted she had killed them. Her lawyer, Marc Morin, said: "We have to clarify a number of points, but she has not disputed her responsibility."

According to investigators Mrs Courjault, who already has two sons aged 10 and 11, simply "did not want any more children".

In 1999, while still in France, she allegedly shielded her pregnancy from her husband, who was often away on business, and gave birth to a boy whom she "suffocated" and whose body she burnt in the fireplace of her family home.

In 2002 the Courjaults moved to South Korea. There, she confessed to secretly giving birth to a second boy whom she also suffocated. His body was put in one of the two large freezers kept in a separate room in the house in Seoul rented by Jean-Louis Courjault's company.

The following year, according to her confession, she again gave birth, again to a boy, in her bathtub. She again stopped the baby breathing and put his body in a supermarket plastic bag and placed him in the same freezer, next to his brother.

One investigator said she saw the freezer as a sort of "family tomb". But the third birth led to an infection which resulted in her having an ablation of her uterus, a procedure one step short of a hysterectomy that leaves the patient sterile.

South Korean investigators used tissue from that operation for one of their two DNA tests which proved the Courjaults were the parents of the babies.

Jean-Louis Corjault raised the alarm to police upon finding the two babies' bodies in the freezer on July 23.

He had left a family vacation in France to return to Seoul on urgent business and said he came across the corpses while putting away fish given him by his Korean language teacher.

Although questioned by South Korean officers, his obvious shock at the find alleviated suspicions against him and he was allowed to continue his vacation in France.

Later, when South Korean DNA testing showed he and his wife were the parents, the couple made their announcement that they were staying in France.

French investigators were combing the Courjaults' property near Tours, central west France, for any trace of the first baby the woman said she had killed and incinerated.

They were also preparing to go to South Korea.

Thats one messed up bitch.

That's disgusting!

I hope she gets the death penalty

Good Lord, those poor children. :cry:

 

 

 

Is that allowed in the country they're in?

 

 

Im not sure, i doubt it but i hope it is.

fucking bitch die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Something like this, happend in Croatia. Terible.

this is one of the most disturbing things i've ever come across. nearly as distrubing as that guy who owned a funeral home and started storing the bodies in his home freezer instead of properly imbalming etc. gross. wrong. sick. criminal.

The problem is - this things are happening all the time, it´s just; we dont know that.

omg that is disgusting...what an evil woman!! i'm with the nick on this one,she definitely deserves the death penalty ...why have the children in the first place if your just gonna kill them I dont get that

she should die

she is one sick bastard

Nearly :confused:? I'd say murdering your children is worse than storing already dead bodies in a home freezer.

 

Unless you then cook and eat them, perhaps!!:rolleyes:

Oh' date=' did he do that too? Gross.[/quote']

 

I hope not!!:stunned:

i'd put a bullet on her skull, fuckin biaaatch.

what a sick freak... shes definetly got a roo loose in the tap paddock!!

what the fuck.