Court upholds sentence of mother who killed babies

Austrias Supreme Court today upheld a life sentence of a woman who stuffed her newborn babies into a freezer or entombed them in cement-filled buckets. In March, a court in the southern city of Graz, where four tiny bodies were discovered in rapid succession in the summer of 2005, convicted Gertraud Arzberger (aged 33), of three counts of murder and sentenced her to life in prison. She had been tried on five counts, but had pleaded guilty to killing only four of her babies, and experts said they could not rule out that one of the four might have been stillborn. .

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