Mum in France charged after 2 babies found dead in freezer

The mother of two infants found dead in a freezer in eastern France has been charged and placed in pre-trial detention, a prosecutor said on Friday.The case is the latest suspected instance of infanticide to emerge in France in recent years.Prosecutor Cedric Logelin said the 50-year-old woman was charged late on Thursday, a day after she was arrested in the western Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt and admitted to freezing her newborns.No one else has been charged, he added.The grim discovery was made after the woman, who had nine children from three different fathers, had abruptly left the family home in the eastern town of Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont in December.She left behind four of her children aged 14 to 20, their father, and a fifth child from another relationship.Official seals of French law enforcement taped across a door at a house where the bodies of two infants were discovered in a freezer. Photo: AFP