Two very shocking stories of a somewhat similar nature breaking on the same day, what are the odds?
The first one deals with police in Germany finding a number of dead babies buried in a garden.
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.
I can’t imagine what would cause a person to do such things to their own children.
The second one involves the discovery of over 300 bodies of babies at a hospital in France.
Remains of 351 stillborn babies and foetuses have been found in the mortuary room of a well-known hospital in the French capital, Paris.
Some of the tiny bodies had been kept against regulations at St Vincent de Paul for up to 25 years and the government has ordered an inquiry.
Health Minister Xavier Bertrand said his ministry would try to find out why and how it had been allowed to happen.
All French maternity hospitals linked to mortuaries will also be checked.
The public prosecutor’s office in Paris has opened its own investigation into the case.
What on Earth were they doing keeping those bodies (for 25 years, in some cases)? It doesn’t make any sense.
The second one sounds like it might just be unauthorised retention of medical specimens; this happens from time to time in hospitals. It shouldn’t happen, but it needn’t necessarily have been done out of sinister or perverted motives.
The first one though… hmmmm… could be innocent (I’ve heard of grieving mothers burying stillborn or miscarried home-birthed babies in flower pots), but nine of them… probably not.