A French mother has admitted suffocating eight of her newborn babies.
Dominique Cottrez murdered the babies "because she did not want any more children", prosecutors said.
The 45-year-old was charged with murder after telling police that after having two daughters she did not want more nor "to see a doctor to get contraception", prosecutor Eric Vaillant told reporters.
The nursing assistant's husband Pierre-Marie Cottrez was let go after denying any knowledge of the killings.
The murders came to light when police found skeletal remains buried in a garden and dumped in plastic sacks in a garage, AFP reported.
His wife's heavy build appears to have concealed the pregnancies from acquaintances.
She now faces trial and life imprisonment.
Investigators said she had confessed to suffocating the babies shortly after their births between 1989 and 2006 or 2007, and to concealing the bodies from her husband under household clutter in the garage.
The father told officers he had never suspected his wife was pregnant.
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