A Swedish mother was sentenced to three years in jail today for strangling her two new-born babies to death and then keeping their bodies in her freezer.
A district court outside Stockholm heard the killings were uncovered earlier this year when police found the frozen corpse of one of the newborns in a wooded area outside Stockholm.
Following a tip-off, police raided the apartment of Helena Pettersson, 31, where she lived with her 13-year-old son, and uncovered a second dead newborn in the freezer.
The two murders took place in 1993 and 1999, shortly after the babies' births.
Pettersson admitted to the killings, but said she could not explain them.
"I don't really know what I was thinking. I was stressed and didn't want more kids," Swedish daily Aftonbladetquoted her as telling the court.
AFP