VILLERS-AU-TERTRE, France — A French prosecutor today recommended charges be leveled against a couple detained after eight dead babies were discovered on their property in northern France.

A judicial official said the couple, in their mid-40s, are the parents of the dead babies. The corpses were found on two different parts of their property in Villers-au-Tertre, near the city of Lille. The official was not authorized to be publicly identified because the investigation is under way.

The woman would face charges of manslaughter against minors less than 15 years old and her husband for failure to report a crime and concealment of corpses, prosecutor Eric Vaillain said in a statement. He planned a news conference later today.

The two were detained Wednesday, and French police escorted them to a court hearing in the city of Douai in the Nord region.

BERLIN — A suspected former Nazi death camp guard was charged in a German youth court because he was a minor at the time — meaning an 88-year-old suspect could be brought to trial as an adolescent and face a more lenient sentence, a judicial official said today.Samuel Kunz, the world's third most wanted Nazi suspect, is charged with participating in the murder of 430,000 Jews at Belzec death camp in occupied Poland. He was 20 years old when he allegedly started working there as a guard in January 1942.According to German law, people between 18 and 21 can be brought to trial either as minors or adults, court spokesman Matthias Nordmeyer said.Charges against Kunz were filed last week at a youth court in the western city of Bonn. Kunz is also accused of murder over "personal excesses" in which he allegedly shot 10 Jews.