Bond Set for Mother in 8 Child Deaths

A 70-year-old Philadelphia woman, charged with suffocating eight of her infant children between 1949 and 1968, was sent home and ordered under house arrest after spending three weeks in jail. Marie Noe was allowed to sign a $500,000 bond after her lawyer convinced the Philadelphia County Common Pleas Court that she and her husband, 77, would not flee their working-class neighborhood before trial, which is expected to start next year. Noe was charged with smothering the children when medical experts concluded nearly 50 years after the first baby died that the deaths were homicides.