By This is one of the strangest stories I have heard of.
A French woman who killed three of her babies, burning one corpse and hiding the others in the family freezer, has been freed after spending four years behind bars.
Veronique Courjault was sentenced in June last year to eight years in jail after admitting to smothering two baby boys born in secret at her home in South Korea in 2002 and 2003, and a third child born in France in 1999.
Now 42 and with two sons aged 13 and 15, Ms Courjault was released on Friday, having served half her sentence after the time she spent in remand since her arrest in October 2006 was taken into consideration.
Ms Courjault hid two pregnancies from her husband after he moved the family to the South Korean capital Seoul to take a job as an engineer for the US car parts company Delphi.
Mr Courjault found the infants’ bodies in the family freezer in July 2006. [ABC News]
I think this lady should have been sent to a mental institution for life instead of a short prison term.
9:02 pm on May 17th, 2010 1
If she is freed from prison is because she doesn't represent a threat to people. You really think that we can keep every people who are a bit insane in mental institution?
10:16 pm on May 17th, 2010 2
I remember this case. This was the case where foreign commentators in Korea related blogs thought the French woman was being unfairly targeted racially by the Korean press and the Korean police. They also said the Korean police was incompetent after the genetic and foresenic test was done. The French press and the police also laughed at the Korean reports and the police, saying they were incompetent and racist.
But then it turned out that it was true, the Korean police was right, the woman confessed of the crime. The French tried and jailed her. After that, I didn't hear anything from the usual anti Korean commentators who were convinced it was a conspiracy cooked up by the Korean people to screw the innocent waegook-in woman.
5:18 am on May 18th, 2010 3
Q: What's the difference between a French baby and your bank account?
A: You are really upset when your bank account gets frozen.
9:13 am on May 18th, 2010 4
Tom can you point out some examples of these foreign commentators because I sure don't remember them?
2:14 pm on May 18th, 2010 5
Q: How is a Frenchwoman's babies like a Frenchwoman's nipples?
A: They get hard when they get cold.
Q: What's the difference?
A: Nobody gives you odd looks when you brag of eating a Frenchwoman's nipples.
8:07 pm on May 18th, 2010 6
Q: What is the best way to describe Veronique Courjault's treatment of her babies?
A: A grave injustice.
Q: …and the worst?
A: A grave in-just-ice.
9:59 pm on May 18th, 2010 7
Sure, how convenient after many years when everything's erased.
8:14 pm on May 21st, 2010 8
Q: What does Veronique Courjault’s baby want to be when it grows up?
A: A snowman.
9:24 pm on May 21st, 2010 9
So they locked her up in France, eh? Well – I wonder if she would have gotten even less time here, since the Koreans don't seem to incarcerate for very long. 2ID nut-job that raped the 67-y/o woman only got 4 years…
9:39 pm on May 24th, 2010 10
Q: What's in Veronique Courjault's freezer?
A: her precious snowflakes
9:51 am on July 28th, 2010 11
It must be a French thing.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article…