A 35-year old woman has been arrested after the discovery of a two month old baby in a freezer.

"/> A 35-year old woman has been arrested after the discovery of a two month old baby in a freezer.

" />

Europe's news in English

COPY LINK

CRIME

Baby found dead in family freezer

A 35-year old woman has been arrested after the discovery of a two month old baby in a freezer.

Published: 21 December 2011 08:44 CET

The woman has admitted that she is the mother of the dead child, who was found in a freezer in the town of Vichy.

Daily newspaper Le Parisien reported on Wednesday that the 15-year-old daughter of the woman went to a police station at the weekend to report the presence of the dead baby’s body in the freezer.

When police caught up with the girl’s mother, she confessed to giving birth to the child three years ago.

She claimed to have given birth in the bath of her home and said she had not realized she was pregnant.

Police doubt this is the case and the woman’s daughter claimed her mother had “put on lots of weight.”

The body found in the freezer measured between 62 and 64 centimetres, leading investigators to believe the child was between two and three months of age at the time of death.

twitter.com/matthew_warren

Member comments

Log in here to leave a comment.

Become a Member to leave a comment.

Two computers stolen from French Olympics' organiser in Lille

However, the spokesperson did not specify the nature of the data linked to the Olympic Games that they contained.

“The complaint from a manager responsible for the planning of the Lille Olympic site was received on the evening of April 29 regarding the theft of two laptops and a badge which were in the organiser’s vehicle, which was parked in front of their home,” said Lille prosecutor Carole Etienne.

“Investigations are underway” to identify the suspect and determine “the exact nature of the data that these computers contained in connection with the 2024 Olympics,” she added.

According to a police source, one of the stolen computers was likely to contain “security plans” for the infrastructure of the Olympic village of Villeneuve-d’Ascq in Lille.

The theft occurred Monday at around 6:30 pm, according to this source, who said that access to files hosted on the network and the cloud was blocked by the Paris 2024 IT department.

“In accordance with Paris 2024 procedures, all data recorded on Paris 2024 computer equipment is encrypted and protected by passwords, and as soon as the theft was reported, the computer was locked remotely,” a spokesperson from the Olympics’ Organising Committee (Cojo) said.

“The security of computer equipment is one of the priorities of Paris 2024, which has taken all risks into account in order to deal with any incident,” the Committee said.

The stolen badge was “an identification badge which does not allow any door to be opened” and “the computer was turned off”, a second police source told AFP.

At the end of February, a bag belonging to an engineer from the City of Paris and containing a computer and two USB sticks where notes relating to the Paris Olympic Games were stored was stolen from a train at Gare du Nord.

Url copied to clipboard!