Utah woman jailed for life for killing her six babies

Judge Darold McDade handed out the sentence to Megan Huntsman, who told the court she was addicted to Methamphetamine at the time of the killings.

The 40-year-old pleaded guilty to the murders, that shocked the small Mormon community of Pleasant Grove, Utah.

Hunstman stored her babies’ bodies for more than a decade in her garage, before they were discovered by her estranged husband Darren West when he was released from prison.

Her husband, who was the father of all of the children, had been serving a sentence for meth related offences for almost a decade.

The babies were born over a 10 year period, from 1996 to 2006, and suffocated by their mother, before being wrapped in cloth and packed up in boxes.

Huntsman agreed to plead guilty rather than go to trial, under an agreement that reduced her minimum possible sentence to five years.

However prosecutors say she is likely to spend the rest of her life behind bars.