OLPE, Germany (Map, News) - German police arrested the mother of three infants whose bodies were found stuffed into a basement freezer, a prosecutor's spokesman said Monday.

Police made the grisly find Sunday night in the town of Wenden, near Olpe, in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, after receiving a tip from one of the woman's three grown children, officials said.

The three infants are believed to have been born alive, said Johannes Daheim, spokesman for prosecutors investigating the case. Authorities were awaiting autopsy results to determine for sure how they died, he said.

The 44-year-old woman, who name was not released, was taken into custody on suspicion that she killed the children.

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"I've been mayor for 14 years, and this is definitely the worst day I've seen," said Peter Brueser. "We will need a long time here to work through this."

There have been a number of similar cases in Germany.

In February, police were called to a home in northern Germany where a dead infant was discovered in the cellar.

In January, a 28-year-old German woman was charged with manslaughter after the remains of three babies were discovered in her house and the home of a relative. That woman has denied killing the three babies.

Another woman was convicted of manslaughter in 2006 for killing eight of her newborn babies and burying them in flower pots and a fish tank in the garden of her parents' home near the German-Polish border.

Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.

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This kind of thing really sickens me...what the devil is wrong with people?

Creation is a miraculous thing...and so is ADOPTION!

That is terrible.

it's the occult of hitler, they try to recapture his soul in that of the three babies, if one of the babies live then it's thier savior Adolf, and the start of the 4th reich and the return of the Atlantian race, that Hitler tried so desperatly to rebuild.

you should sell that idea to FOX, they might make a movie or reality based tv show...

Now THAT is creepy!

Lmao, it's actually on a biography DVD of World War II, The Occoult Of Hitler, That's what the S.S. was, his attempt to reform the Atlantians, because they had mind powers.

omg... How do you know this ?