TORONTO – A family left the decaying corpse of patriarch Peter Wald in the upstairs bedroom of their home in Hamilton, Ont. for six months hoping for his resurrection.
On Monday, wife Kaling Wald, 50, pleaded guilty to failing to notify police that her husband had died, the Hamilton Spectator reports.
The bizarre story began back in September of last year when a foreclosure company found the body while trying to evict the Wald family who had defaulted on their mortgage.
According to The Spectator, Peter Wald, 52, probably died “around March 20th” of 2013 and had suffered from a diabetic sore in his left foot that had gone untreated. The agreed state of facts read in court Monday said he refused to go to the hospital as he believed God would cure him.
Kaling said her husband went into a coma and days later she noticed signs of rigor mortis on his forehead.
Kaling reportedly covered the body in blankets and sealed the bedroom with duct tape to stop the smell of the decaying body from wafting to the rest of the house. For six months the Wald family prayed for their deceased husband and father hoping for his return.
“We were trusting God…we thought, ‘OK Lord, you know better,'” Kaling told The Spectator. “That was how strong our faith was.”
The Children’s Aid Society was called in as the Kaling’s have six children, but no concerns for the children’s were found.
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