Andrea Giesbrecht will have to wait a little longer to find out whether a judge will grant her bail while her case works its way through appeals court.
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Giesbrecht, 43, was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison last July for concealing the remains of six dead infants in a storage locker.
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The Winnipeg mom is appealing that verdict and was in court Wednesday morning asking to be freed on bail until that appeal can be heard by the court.
“We are dealing with very serious offences here,” Crown Jennifer Mann told the court Wednesday. “We will never know how these babies died.”
READ: Andrea Giesbrecht sentenced to 8.5 years for concealing remains of 6 dead infants in storage locker
The judge reserved his decision but a date was not set.
Giesbrecht’s lawyer told the court her sentence was extraordinarily harsh. “If there is no homicide here, we don’t need such a severe sentence,” defence lawyer Greg Brodsky.
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