Andrea Giesbrecht, woman guilty of storing dead babies, shows ‘no remorse’: crown

Crown prosecutors say, Andrea Giesbrecht, the woman who was found guilty of concealing six dead infants in a Winnipeg storage locker, shows no sign of remorse and must be separated from society.

On Friday, lawyers argued over what sentence should be imposed on Giesbrecht, five months after she was found guilty.

Crown prosecutor, Debbie Buors told the court Giesbrecht took extreme risks to hide the pregnancies and her crimes were planned and pre-meditated. She said Giesbrecht had never planned to be a mother to any of the infants.

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“Based on everything we’ve seen and heard, she has absolutely no remorse,” she told the court. “There is absolutely no explanation.”

The crown is asking for an 11-year prison sentence.

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A judge will take the submissions from the Crown and defence lawyers and then the court will reconvene for the final sentencing decision on another date.

Provincial court Judge Murray Thompson has also agreed to a media request to live-stream his decision on sentencing.

On Feb. 5, Giesbrecht was found guilty of six counts of concealing infant remains. She faces up to 11 years in prison as each charge carries a maximum sentence of two years.

Giesbrecht was arrested in October 2014 after she defaulted on paying rent for the storage locker. Staff, who were to auction off the locker’s contents, opened a plastic bin, noticed a strange smell and called the police.

Medical experts testified the infants were Giesbrecht’s, were at or near full-term, and were likely to have been born alive. But because the remains were badly decomposed, it was impossible
to determine how the infants died.

Giesbrecht’s lawyers will make their submission to the judge later Friday. She may also have the chance to address the court herself.

With files from the Canadian Press