Friday, August 05, 2005

Communism blamed for baby deaths

There's politically incorrect and then there's politically incorrect:
A GERMAN politician caused outrage by suggesting East Germany's communist past created a morally bankrupt social climate where a woman could kill nine of her babies unnoticed by neighbours.

Police arrested a 39-year-old German woman in the eastern state of Brandenburg on Monday and charged her with killing nine newborn babies between 1988 and 1999 after finding their bodies buried in flower pots at her parents' home.
The Australian