The world’s worst mother: guaranteed will never ever win any Mother’s Day award

In April 2008, Sabine Hilschenz, 42, a German woman, was sentenced by a Frankfurt court to 15 years in prison for killing 8 of her own newborn children between 1992 and 1998.

In fact, she killed a 9th child, also her own, but “the time in which she could be charged for that crime had lapsed since 1988.”

Ms Hilschenz is a divorced unemployed dental assistant in the eastern German state of Brandenburg. She and her her former husband were members, under the communist regime, of the Stasi (East German secret police).

Such was the nature of the crimethat it raised questions about the long-term social effects of communism.

She had been found guilty 2 years earlier (2006).

She said she had been too drunk to remember either their births or their deaths. . In most of the births, she was drunk when she went into labour.

The corpses were were discovered hidden in cans buried in flower boxes, in which she then grew strawberries and flowers, around the woman’s apartment and in an empty aquarium in the garage of her parents’ property in another town: