A French woman who admitted suffocating eight of her newborns and concealing their corpses in the garden and garage of her home has been charged with manslaughter, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Dominique Cottrez, a 46-year-old nurse’s aide by profession, said that after a bad experience with her first pregnancy she never again wanted to see a doctor. She admitted delivering the babies herself and placing the corpses in plastic bags. She buried two of the newborns in the garden and hid the other bodies in the garage, prosecutor Eric Vaillant said.

The drama recalled gruesome baby killings of the past but surpassed all other known cases in France in recent years in the number of infants killed by their mother.

“She explained that she didn’t want any more children and that she didn’t want to see a doctor to take contraceptives,” Vaillant told a news conference. “She was perfectly conscious of the fact that she was pregnant each time.”

Cottrez and her husband, Pierre-Marie Cottrez, were detained Wednesday after two corpses in plastic bags were discovered in a garden by the new owners of a house that had belonged to the woman’s father in the town of Villers-au-Tertre in northern France. Under questioning, the woman admitted that there were six other corpses and told investigators that they were in plastic bags in the garage of her home, where they were found.

The woman is still in detention and will undergo further psychiatric testing, Vaillant said. Her husband was freed from custody and not charged, although he remains under judicial control. He claimed he knew nothing about the pregnancies of his wife.

“As for Mr. Cottrez, the sky is falling on his head he told us,” the prosecutor said. “He told us that he was absolutely not aware that his wife was pregnant.”

Vaillant noted that Mrs. Cottrez is quite heavy, making it easy to conceal a pregnancy. The prosecutor had said earlier in a statement that the husband could be charged with failure to report a crime and concealment of corpses.

The couple’s two grown daughters, who are in their 20s, have been questioned, Vaillant said. He refused to provide further details about them or what they said.

Neighbors in this village in northern France expressed shock after learning that Cottrez had killed her newborns.

“It’s revolting. It is monstrous,” said Janique Kaszynski, who lives next door to the couple. “For me … they aren’t human beings. It’s monstrous to have killed eight viable babies.”

Police sealed the doors, gate and windows of the house where the remains of some of the babies were discovered. DNA tests are being conducted to establish for sure whether the couple are the parents, and autopsies are being conducted on the corpses to try to determine the cause of death.

The prosecutor said the bodies “don’t show any sign” of injuries.

France has seen a string of cases in recent years of mothers killing their newborns and saving and hiding the corpses.

In one case, Celine Lesage was sentenced in March to 15 years in prison after acknowledging in court that she killed six of her newborns, whose corpses were found in plastic bags in her basement in northwest France.

Another Frenchwoman, Veronique Courjault, was convicted last year of murdering three of her newborn children. Her husband discovered two of the corpses in a freezer while the two were living in South Korea. During the trial psychiatrists testified that she suffered from a psychological condition known as “pregnancy denial.”

Germany also has seen similar cases. In one, a woman was convicted of manslaughter in 2006 and sentenced to the maximum 15 years in prison for killing eight of her newborn babies and burying them in flower pots and a fish tank in the garden of her parents’ home near the German-Polish border.

You have to see this video. Rats the size of small cats are running all over a park in New York in broad daylight without fear of people. What most people in America do not know is that the State of New York is totally run by unions.

Unions make it impossible for the government to fire anyone. This park is probably supposed to be maintained by some city entity, but its not because the people that are supposed to be doing that job are busy getting 75 grand a year to sleep at home instead of doing their jobs. JD

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona’s immigration law from taking effect, delivering a last-minute victory to opponents of the crackdown.

The overall law will still take effect Thursday, but without the provisions that angered opponents — including sections that required officers to check a person’s immigration status while enforcing other laws.

The judge also put on hold parts of the law that required immigrants to carry their papers at all times, and made it illegal for undocumented workers to solicit employment in public places. In addition, the judge blocked officers from making warrantless arrests of suspected illegal immigrants.

“Requiring Arizona law enforcement officials and agencies to determine the immigration status of every person who is arrested burdens lawfully-present aliens because their liberty will be restricted while their status is checked,” U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton ruled.

She ruled that the controversial sections should be put on hold until the courts resolve the issues. Other provisions of the law, many of them procedural and slight revisions to existing Arizona immigration statute, will go into effect at 12:01 a.m.

The ruling came just as police were making last-minute preparations to begin enforcement of the law and protesters were planning large demonstrations to speak out against the measure. At least one group planned to block access to federal offices, daring officers to ask them about their immigration status.

The volume of the protests will likely be turned down a few notches because of the ruling by Bolton, a Clinton appointee who suddenly became a crucial figure in the immigration debate when she was assigned the seven lawsuits filed against the Arizona law.

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Look at the giant head on Tony Robbins. Here he is pictured next to a woman I assume is his wife. Robbins head is twice the size of hers.

I heard that the next Super Bowl is going to be held on Tony Robbins head.

After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, they were going to use Tony Robbins head to stop the leaks in the levee.

Bowling balls are jealous.

The Air Force wants to drop Tony Robbins head on Afghanistan to end the war there.

Tony Robbins home town wanted to make a statue to honor him, but there was not enough brass in the world for his head.

Chicago wanted to hire Tony Robbins head and use it for a wrecking ball.

Seriously, the guy has an enormous head.

I really have little to say about Lady Gaga except that she is a moron squared. I have never seen such a contrived attempt by the record industry to keep a person in the media. Katy Perry is right about Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga is an embarrassment.

A little boy from Leland, N.C., is lucky to be alive today after falling on a power washer and having an L-shaped metal rod rammed into his brain.

A leisurely Saturday nearly turned deadly 10 days ago, when 17-month-old Jessiah Jackson fell from a chair at his home landing directly on the rod of a power washer.

The unbelievable result? The metal rod lodged three inches into his brain.

His uncle, Carlton Reed was with him at the time, luckily he had training as an EMT.

Reed said, “It scared me to death. I didn’t know what to do. I just knew to keep his head still.”

The rod came within a hair’s breadth of the child’s torcula vein, nearly severing blood flow between the brain and heart.

Dr. Anand Germanwala, who treated Jessiah at The University of North Carolina Hospital, told CBS News, “This could not have been in a worse location.”

He continued, “If there was any injury to that, that could have resulted in instant death. That could have resulted in a massive stroke. That could have resulted in a terrible outcome.”

Doctors told Grandfather Joseph Jones that little Jessiah’s chances were grim by the time he got to the care of neurosurgeons at The University of North Carolina Hospital.

Jones said, “He didn’t sugarcoat anything. He said, ‘Mr. Jones, more than likely, we pull the screw out of his head, he’s going to bleed out and bleed to death,’ so when he said that man i just lost it.”

But just a day after surgery, Jessiah was already recovering as if nothing had ever happened.

Germanwala said, “I think we had a lot of help from above, and fortunately everything went well, so i think he is a miracle baby.”

Jones added, “It’s like God gave him a second chance.”

Wow. Who would have figured . . . . NOT. Talk about epic fail. Obama once again steps in dog crap without having a Popcicle stick to get it out from in between his toes. JD

THE US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be “far preferable” to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya.

Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.

The intervention, which has angered US relatives of those who died in the attack, was made by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, a week before Megrahi was freed in August last year on grounds that he had terminal cancer.

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