The lawyer for a woman accused of concealing the remains of six fetuses or babies in a storage locker says they may have been there for eight to 10 years.
Greg Brodsky says he’s waiting on tests of maggots to determine the precise length of time the remains were in the locker.
Andrea Giesbrecht, 40, was arrested in October after the human remains were found in a Winnipeg U-Haul storage locker.
She had her bail hearingpostponed for a third time Friday, meaning she will likely remain behind bars until the new year.
Brodsky wants the Crown to share complete autopsy reports for all six fetuses, but so far he has only received preliminary autopsy results on one.
He had previously argued that the bail hearings could not go ahead without them.
Maggots found in the storage locker were sent to B.C. for further examination, but results are not yet back. Brodsky said he hopes that the maggots will reveal the precise age of the remains, which he believes are “ancient.”
He is also waiting on X-rays to show that there are no broken bones.
Brodsky maintains that the fetuses were stillborn. "There was nothing that the person who delivered the child, or the fetus, or the product of conception, did to interfere with their live birth,” he said.
Police said at the onset it could take months of forensic examination before it's known who the parents were, how the infants died and whether they were full-term.
No reason was given Friday for why the bail hearing was postponed.
Giesbrechtis facing six charges of concealing bodies, along with unrelated fraud charges and a count of breaching a court order.
With files from The Canadian Press and CTV Winnipeg
