Judge finds Winnipeg woman guilty of concealing dead babies in storage locker
WINNIPEG — A judge has determined that a woman secretly delivered six babies at or near full term and stashed their remains in a U-Haul storage locker.
Provincial court Judge Murray Thompson convicted Andrea Giesbrecht on six counts of concealing the body of a dead child. Each carries a maximum two years in jail.
He said the infants were likely to have been born alive but, because they were badly decomposed, medical experts could not determine how they died.
“All of her actions lead to one conclusion: that Giesbrecht was aware that these children were likely to have been born alive and she wished to conceal the fact of their birth,” Thompson said Monday in his decision, which was live-streamed from the Winnipeg courthouse by the media.