Vereema, Serial Baby-Killing Mom – India, 2012

Excerpt from an article about infanticide in general: “35-year-old Veeramma at Rajendra Nagar, who is pregnant for the eighth time and who, according to her neighbours, has already killed four girls, just avoid going to the PHCs for pre-delivery care, to escape “official” attention. Or, they claim that the dead babies were male.”

[Radha Venkatesan, “Right to live is not guaranteed here,” The Hindu (Chennai, Madras, India) Aug 16, 2012]

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Ludivine Chambet, Serial Killer Nurse – France, 2013

Between November 2012 and November 2013 Ludivine Chambet (30) poisoned 13 of her elederly patients at the nursing home l'Ehpad du Césalet at Chambéry (Savoie). Ten of them died from the concoctions she supplied to the unsuspecting victims.

Suspicions about Ludivine began to develop on October 29, 2013 after the peculiar death of Elise, an 83-year-old patient with Parkinson's disease. That day, the director of the hospital center of Chambéry compared the dates of more than ten other suspicious deaths or malaise and the schedules of the caregivers. It appeared that Ludovine was killing her patients. The management then realizes was on site and the doctor alerts the floor.

By November 4 Ludovine was accused of poisoning and on December 10, 2013 she was arrested. She admitted her activities but claimed the killings were acts of altuism "to relieve their suffering,” as she explained.

May 23, 2017 Ludovine Chambet was found guilty of ten homicides and was sentenced to 25 years in prison, to be followed by 10 years of supervision and she was banned from ever taking a care-giving position again.

[Robert St. Estephe, Dec. 16, 2018]

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Nov. 2012 - Nov. 2013 – gave drugs to ten residents of a retirement home in Jacob-Bellecombette (Savoie) in order to kill them.

Oct. 29, 2013 – The suspicions began to weigh on Ludivine Chambet after the suspicious death of Elise, an 83-year-old patient with Parkinson's disease.

Dec. 10, 2013 – Arrested.

May 23, 2017 – Trial ends; Chamber (34), sentenced to 30 years. 

 

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“Vlasatice Serial Baby-Killing Mom” – Czech Republic, 2014

FULL TEXT: A court official says a Czech woman has been convicted of killing her three new-born babies and sentenced to 22 years in prison.

Marketa Sigmundova, spokeswoman for the regional court in the city of Brno says the 31-year-old was convicted of strangling a girl born in May and twins born the previous year.

Police discovered the bodies in the cellar of the woman's house in the southeastern village of Vlasatice after receiving a tip from her gynecologist.

Sigmundova said Wednesday the woman wanted to appeal.

[“Czech woman convicted of killing her 3 babies,” USA Today, March 5, 2014]

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Chiemi Tonuma, Serial Baby-Killing Mom – Japan, 2013

On Oct. 23, 2013 a couple in Tokyo’s Ota Ward, Hideaki and Cheimi Tonuma were arrested on suspicion of abandoning their three babies soon after their births in 2002, 2010 and 2011. The press reported that Cheimi was formerly a bar hostess. The unemployed husband’s previous occupation was not given.

The couple’s history of abandoning their children came to light in March 2011 when a abandoned baby girl was found in a public park in Ota, Japan. She was discovered and saved from death. Police conducted a DNA test on the baby and were able to use the match the genetic information that of the parents. After a two year effort the parents, Hideaki and Cheimi Tonuma, were found.

When interrogated the Tonumas admitting to a series of similar atrocious acts of child abuse. In 2003 the abandoned a the corpse of a baby son in the Saitama Prefecture. The pair filed a missing person report, presumably to protect themselves if they were found out. It is presumed the child died but the body has never been found.

In the following year (2004) the only child that the couple did not abandon in infancy, a 9-year-old son, was removed from parental custody by the court due to child abuse.

In 2010 Chiemi gave birth to her first daughter. The baby was abandoned and died of exposurre. DNA samples were preserved.

It was the surviving baby’s DNA and the two abandoned daughters, one dead ande the other alive that led to the unnatural parents and proovide the evidence needed to convict them.

On January 16, 2014, Hideaki, 32, unemployed and Cheimi, pleased guilty to two homicide charges.

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2002 – newborn boy murdered; disposed of his body in Saitama Prefecture

2004 – 9-year-old son who was placed in a child welfare center after being abused by his parents.

2010 – newborn murdered. The court heard that the pair also abandoned another baby girl in 2010. The girl was found but the son’s body was never found. Police said that DNA tests on the two baby girls led them to the parents who remained elusive until their arrest.

Mar. 2011 – the couple were arrested for abandoning a baby girl who was found alive in a public park in Ota.

Oct. 30 (?), 2013 – arrested for murders.

Jan. 16 (?), 2014 – trial begins. Both plead guilty.

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Sources:

[“Trial begins for couple who abandoned 3 newborn babies over 9-year period,” Japan Today, Jan. 16, 2014]

[“Couple confess to abandoning 3 newborn babies over 9-year period,” Nov. 5, 2013]

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Andrea Giesbrecht, the Alleged “U-Haul Seral Baby-Killer Mom – Canada, 2014

Winnipeg, Canada – Andrea Giesbrecht, AKA Andrea Naworynski, a 40-year-old married woman, was arrested Oct. 20, 2014 and charged with six counts of concealing bodies of six newborn infants. The corpses were discovered October 20 by U-Haul employees when emptying a storage unit after Giesbrecht failed to make payments. Police initially believed there were three or four bodies found in various states of decomposition and preserved in a liquid; later raised the total to six.

Giesbrecht held business administration diploma and over the previous decade and worked for private business and social service organizations. Recently she volunteered at Siloam Mission. She has two teenage sons, aged 12 and 16. For over a decade she had been a chronic gambler and her losses had frequently been the source of tension between Andrea and her husband.

On July 14, 2017 Andrea Giesbrecht was sentenced to 8½ years in prison for concealing the remains of six infants. Due to the decomposed state of the remains could not be determined what the condition of their birth and demise had been. At the sentencing hearing.Judge Murray Thompson said “Giesbrecht's moral culpability is extremely high.”

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Andrea Giesbrecht: HISTORY OF OTHER CRIMES:

Fraud: accused of defrauding Employment and Income Assistance of more than $5,000 between Dec. 1, 2011, and May 1, 2012; charged with fraud under $5,000 for allegedly defrauding Xtra Cash Ltd., a payday advance business, in the period between Dec. 12, 2012, and March 21, 2013.

Probation violation: On Oct. 18, 2014, Giesbrecht breached a probation order, issued on Sept. 30, 2014, not to participate in gambling.

Larceny conviction (Sep. 14, 2014): Giesbrecht was convicted of "borrowing" $7,850 from a 73-year-old woman, then writing bad cheques and not repaying her. She received a 2-year suspended sentenced.

Larceny (civil suit): Civil suit by another woman charges $3,300 dept paid with bad checks.

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Sources:

[Angela Johnston, “Andrea Giesbrecht: New details emerge about accused in dead infants case,” CBC News, Oct. 23, 2014]

[Jen Gerson, “Winnipeg woman charged with hiding six dead babies in storage locker defrauded neighbour to pay debts,” National Post, Nov. 2, 2014]

[“Andrea Giesbrecht, accused in dead infants case, faces more fraud charges,” CBC News, Nov. 10, 2014]

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Erika Murray, the “House of Horror" Serial Baby-Killing Mom - Massachusetts, 2014

Even though the Erika Murray “House of Horrors” murder investigation in Blackstone, Massachusetts, began in September 2014, the case remains open. On Aug. 28, 2014 a neighbor, who visited the house after one of the resident children, a 10-year-old boy, asked her “how do you stop a baby from crying” The house was a shambles and there was a “5-month-old girl lying on a mattress covered in trash, clothes and fecal matter. In another trash-filled bedroom a 3-year-old girl was found covered in feces and wearing a soiled diaper.”

About two weeks later, police discovered the remains of three dead babies. Two dead cats and a dead dog were also found in the home which was infested with rodents and insects and piled high with dirty diapers. On September 11, Erika, 31-years-old, was arrested on charges including fetal death concealment, witness intimidation and permitting substantial injury to a child.

[Robert St. Estephe, Dec. 15, 2018]

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There is an excellent – up-to-date as of late 2018 – overview of the case: “Erika Murray's Squalid House of Horrors,” Jim Fisher True Crime, October 17, 2018.

http://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2014/09/erika-murrays-squalid-house-of-horrors.html

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CHRONOLOGY

2006 – partner Ramon Rivera’s sister moved out of the house.

2007 – social worker with the Department of Children and Families (DCF) visited the house on St. Paul Street.
2011 – girl born; murdered after some hours.

April 2014 – couple's fourth child born; murdered after some hours.

Aug. 28, 2014 – the second oldest child (10-y-o boy) in the house went to a neighbor and asked, "How do you get a baby to stop crying?"

Sep. 10, 2014 – house searched; remains of a baby, a dead dog, 2 dead cats found.

Sep. 11, 2014 – bodies of two more infants found; arrested on charges including fetal death concealment, witness intimidation and permitting substantial injury to a child.
Sep. 12, 2014 – arraigned; pleaded not guilty.

Oct. 14, 2014 – bail hearing;  $1 million; at arraignment, pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Oct. 21, 2014 – St. Paul Street house demolished.
Dec. 29, 2014 – a grand jury sitting in Worcester, Massachusetts indicted Erika Murray on two counts of murder, one count of fetal death concealment related to the remains of the three babies, and two counts of assault and battery in connection with the neglected and abused children.
Dec. 22, 2016 – prelim. hearing; def. att. Moves to suppress evidence from Sep. 10 search.
Mar. 13, 2017 – Judge Janet Kenton-Walker denies Dec. 22 motion.

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Ramona Hernandez-Canete, Serial Baby-Killing Mom - 2015, France

Lochats, Gironde, France – On March 20, 2015, Ramona Hernandez-Canete, 37, was arrested after one of her teenage children discovered a baby’s body inside a freezer bag in a laundry basket.

Her husband, Juan Carlos Hernandez-Canete, called the police after the body was found. He told investigators he had not known his wife was pregnant on the five occasions between 2005 and 2015, despite the pregnancies reaching full term. Neighbors were also in the dark about the pregnancies. Her obesity allowed her to disguise her state. A autopsy showed that the baby, a boy, had been born alive 48 hours earlier. A police search of the couple’s home turned up the bodies of four more newborn infants in a freezer. Both were arrested, the wife charged with infaniticide, the husband was charged for failing to report a crime (later dropped).

The trial of Ramona began March 19, 2018 in the Assises Court of the Gironde. Her attorney claimed she was maniuplated by her husband, who was “possessive and jealous. The trial ended on the 20th with a guilty conviction and a sentence of eight years in prison.  Until the trial she claimed to have no memory of the killings. Yet at trial confessed that she had drowned her babies, all born viable, after giving birth in the bath, before freezing them but said, until his trial, not to really remember the events.

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SOURCES:

Affaire des cinq infanticides en Gironde: La mère condamnée à 8 ans de prison, 20 minutes (France), 23/03/18

Kim Willsher, French woman admits killing five newborn babies, Guardian (London), 19 Mar 2018

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