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It’s easy to feel sympathy for the pregnant girl who is afraid to tell her parents that she’s been sexually active. She kills and disposes of the infant in a desperate attempt to keep their love. She may even fear physical reprisals if she admits to her condition – as a teenager, Rose West (now in prison for aiding her serial-killer husband) was battered by her father when she told him that she was pregnant by her lover, Fred.

But occasionally a woman will commit repeated acts of infanticide, using it as a kind of retrospective contraception. She’s willing to cause pain, however fleeting, to infant after infant rather than use birth control or remain celibate. Understandably, the law judges such women more harshly than the tell-no-one teenager and sentences them accordingly.

Sabine Hilschinz grew up in East Germany, the product of a housewife mother and railwayman father. She married a police cadet called Oliver who later enrolled in the Stasi, the Ministry for State Security. Sabine herself trained as a dental nurse though she had an IQ of 120, which is university-level. The couple had three children together and she was originally devoted to them.

But Oliver’s work took him away from home for weeks at a time and Sabine couldn’t cope with the demands of motherhood. Bored and lonely, she regularly went drinking by herself, leaving her little ones at home alone. Soon her social drinking had escalated into alcoholism and she spent much of her life in a vodka-induced haze. The German authorities, who were monitoring the family, became so alarmed at the children’s failure to thrive that they eventually took all three into care.