The 25-year-old woman was a well-known and liked dentist’s assistant in the rural town of Nij Beet. She managed to keep the infanticides secret for years until her Wednesday arrest.
Police were tipped off by a suspicious neighbor who noted that the woman kept getting visibly pregnant, but never had any children.
Despite local shock and outrage at the infanticides, Dutch case law permits the killing of newborns for “unbearable suffering” by doctors following a checklist called the Groningen Protocol.
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