A French mother shocked the public by admitted on Thursday her killing of eight newborn babies.

A picture taken from the Facebook page allegedly shows Dominique Cottrez, who was charged with the "deliberate homicides of minors under the age of 15". The French nursing assistant has admitted suffocating eight of her newborn babies and stashing their tiny bodies in plastic bags in a quiet village. [Xinhua]

Dominique Cortez, the mother murderer, admitted that she stifled voluntarily eight of her infants and hid their corpses in her ex-house in the northern village of Villers-au-Tertre, local prosecutors said.

The mother confessed that she did not want to have babies anymore and refused to see a doctor to get contraception, the prosecutors told local reporters, calling it "a non-standard case given the large number of newborns."

The eight newborns were found dead on Wednesday when new owners of the house discovered a bag containing human remains.

The 45-year-old mother of two girls, arrested on charges of deliberating offense against children under 15, is facing a sentence of life imprisonment.

Her husband, accused of not reporting the killings and hiding the bodies, was considered a witness and released.