A German mother has been sentenced to more than four years in jail for killing two of her babies whose bodies she stashed under pizzas in the family freezer.
Monika Halbe was not tried in connection with a third baby, also found in the freezer, because the statute of limitations on the case had expired.
The 44-year-old housewife, had admitted to hiding the bodies of three baby girls in the family freezer, but had denied killing them.
In a case that has made national headlines, it was the defendant's 18-year-old son who had discovered the girls' tiny corpses in plastic bags in May when looking for a pizza in the basement freezer.
Prosecutors charged her with two counts of manslaughter for killing one daughter in 1988 and another between 2003 and 2007.
The one born in 1988, delivered in the family bathroom, was suffocated by being held close for several minutes. The second also died of a lack of oxygen.
The third girl is believed to have been killed in 1986 or 1987, also shortly after birth.
