There can be few things more likely to provoke horrific fascination -- and guarantee massive media coverage -- than a mother who murders her babies.
We find the act repugnant because nothing is more contrary to natural selection.
But there can surely be nothing worse than suffering the tragedy of your babies dying and then being falsely accused of their murders. This is exactly what happened to a woman in Britain last year, but thankfully the story has a happy ending, or at least a just one.