A Canadian judge founda mother guilty on Monday of concealing the decomposing remainsof her six babies in a storage locker.
Andrea Giesbrecht, who turns 43 this week, was charged withsix counts of concealing the body of a child in October, 2014.
Staff at storage company U-Haul, a subsidiary of Amerco, discovered the stinking bodies in her locker after shefell behind on payments.
Police then found the remains of five boys and a girl, atgestational ages ranging between 34 and 40 weeks, in garbagebags, plastic bins and pails, along with children´s toys andclothing.
One infant´s remains were encased in concrete and another ina detergent like powder, and all were too badly decomposed todetermine a cause of death.
The remains of all six infants were linked to Giesbrecht andher husband through DNA evidence.
Giesbrecht´s defense lawyers had argued that she was notconcealing the remains, but saving them.
But Judge Murray Thompson ruled in Manitoba provincial courtin Winnipeg that Giesbrecht packed up the bodies to keep themsecret, and used an incorrect address and her maiden name forthe storage locker account.
He accepted experts´ testimony thatthe babies were likely born alive.The couple has two other children.Each charge carries a maximum penalty of two years in jail.
Sentencing will happen at a later date.