OSAKA – A 53-year-old woman was arrested in Osaka on Tuesday after she confessed to disposing of four dead infants she had given birth to over a five-year period, placing the bodies in buckets filled with concrete.
After Mayumi Saito turned herself in to authorities on Monday, police found four concrete-filled buckets in a closet in her condominium in Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture.
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