ATTLEBORO, Mass. - State investigators trying to determine whether an Attleboro sect member whose stillborn child was secretly buried in Maine has had another baby were turned away from the woman's house Thursday, prosecutors said. Rebecca Corneau, 33, had recently appeared pregnant, and Bristol County District Attorney Paul Walsh sought at a hearing Wednesday to have Corneau confined to protect the baby.
But Corneau no longer appeared pregnant at the hearing. Walsh dropped his petition and instead filed a complaint with the Department of Social Services
Corneau has already given birth five times, including her stillborn son, Jeremiah, who was secretly buried in 1999 in Maine with his infant cousin, Samuel Robidoux. Prosecutors allege that Samuel starved to death.
His parents, sect leader Jacques Robidoux and his wife, Karen, face murder charges in a trial expected to start in March.