Trunk of Horrors

Just when I start to think that maybe the human race isn't all that bad, I see something like this:

A mechanic has spoken of the moment he found an underfed and dehydrated baby who had been forced to live hidden in a car boot, possibly since birth. The girl, aged between 15 and 23 months, was discovered on Friday when her mother brought the car to a garage in Terrasson, in central France. One of the workers heard "bizarre noises, like moans" coming from the car boot and opened it to find the girl.

Garage director Denis Latour said: "She was naked, on the side there was a crib ... and there was this unbearable smell. "The baby girl was laying on garbage bags at the bottom of the trunk … crying and trying to get some fresh air because not only did it smell, but it was also hermetic."

Mechanic Guillaume Iguacel, who found the girl, said: "I'm still having trouble sleeping, it was a horrifying sight, seeing this little girl in her own excrement, not able to hold up her head, white as a sheet."

Mr Iguacel said the girl's mother appeared to have little concern for her daughter. He said: "We were deeply shocked because she didn't find this abnormal."