France: Mother charged with multiple infanticide counts

Story here. From March; I heard on the radio the trial has started. Excerpt:

'The bodies of five babies, four in a freezer, have been discovered in a house in southwestFrance, in what appears to be the country’s worst case of infanticide in recent years.

The mother, 35, was taken to hospital and the 40-year old father taken in for questioning after he alerted police to the body of a newborn he found in a thermal bag earlier in the day.

Officers then “discovered four more bodies of babies during their search” at the house in Louchats, near the city of Bordeaux, said a source close to the inquiry.

It was the father, a farmer, who made the initial macabre discovery of the bag containing the first corpse of a newborn baby at the family home.

The mother apparently “gave birth at home alone”, the source said, adding that she had been taken to a hospital in nearby Bordeaux “for gynaecological and psychiatric examinations”.'

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so... how much jail time will the father have to do?

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