A Winnipeg woman convicted for concealing the remains of six dead babies is appealing the judgement.
In July, Andrea Giesbrecht was ordered to eight and a half years behind bars.
Taking into consideration time served, Giesbrecht will spend a remaining 7.8 years in custody.
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At the time, her lawyer Greg Brodsky said the sentence was too severe.
“She doesn’t seem like the worst offender,” Brodksy said in July. “She didn’t throw (the remains) in a landfill dump… she didn’t put it in a garbage bin, she didn’t chop it up. There were no marks on the product of conception to show she was interfering with them being born.”
On August 10, Brodsky filed a notice of appeal.
“Now we have to determine whether or not she will apply for bail, she probably will. And then we have to fix the timing of the appeal and file the arguments, Brodsky said Wednesday. “I mean there are a lot of grounds here for appeal. 41, my goodness. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen 41 grounds to complain about a judge’s ruling.”
Giesbrecht was arrested Oct. 20, 2014, when six dead infants were found wrapped in towels and stored inside plastic containers in a U-Haul storage locker she had been renting.
She had pleaded not guilty to to six counts of concealing infant remains and had been free on bail since she was arrested in 2014.
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The mother of two was found guilty in February but wasn’t sentenced until July.
“Giesbrecht does not come before the court as a person of good moral character,” Judge Murray Thompson said in his judgement. “She has not demonstrated any remorse.”
WATCH: Judge Murray Thompson delivers his sentence
In a rare move, Thompson allowed the hearing to be live streamed by Global News.
Thompson said the crimes were not victimless and reiterated expert evidence from trial which said there was a “real possibility these children would have survived birth.”
“She and others need to be deterred from committing this offence,” Thompson said in his judgement.
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