Married parents killed four of their own children, hid bodies in barrels

The Łódź Prosecutor's office have charged a couple with quadruple murder following the macabre discovery of the corpses of their four children at their flat, three of them in barrels, of which at least two were mummified. Police discovered the corpses of two newborns and nine-year-old twins, on Saturday when they were searching for a suspected thief. They said three bodies were found in barrels and the fourth was wrapped in plastic. "All the evidence indicates that the children were killed by their parents. The cause of death...was drowning," said Dariusz Krawczyk, a police spokesman. The 30-year-old mother, who is six months pregnant, was detained on Saturday. She failed to give any coherent explanation. The 29-year-old father, wanted in connection with several thefts and burglaries, pleaded guilty. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3; Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 5) J.K.