Overview
- Police found bones and a decomposing body believed to be five infants inside cardboard boxes at a flat in Orange after a discovery made on Monday.
- The woman's 32‑year‑old partner searched the home after learning of a late pregnancy and alerted hospital staff, who informed prosecutors.
- A local public prosecutor opened a suspected‑murder investigation and ordered a post‑mortem on the decomposing remains plus anthropological laboratory testing on the bones.
- The 32‑year‑old mother remains hospitalized and has not yet been interviewed while child welfare services have been asked to assess two older children and a provisional placement order was issued for the newborn.
- Reports differ on whether the couple were arrested and some details such as timing and cause of death await forensic results, a development that draws comparison in media to past concealed‑birth cases but does not establish legal parallels.