Andrea Giesbrecht pleads guilty to fraud charge, breach of probation

A Manitoba woman accused of concealing the remains of six infants was in court Thursday on unrelated charges.

Andrea Giesbrecht was charged after the remains of six infants were uncovered at a Winnipeg storage unit. That trial began earlier this month but has been held over to August due to scheduling issues with her lawyer, Greg Brodsky.

Giesbrecht appeared in a Winnipeg courtroom on Thursday on three unrelated fraud charges and a breach of probation charge.

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A charge of fraud under $5,000 was dropped after Giesbrecht pleaded guilty to one charge of fraud over $5,000. The third charge remains pending and a trial is set for September.

Giesbrecht was sentenced to 60 days in custody for the fraud charge and the breach of probation, but was given 1.5 times credit for time she already served, bringing the sentence down to 40 days, which she has already served.

She spent about six months in pre-trial custody from October 2014 to April 2015 before being granted bail.

Giesbrecht is out on bail on remaining charges and is in an Elizabeth Fry Society program,an agency that helps female offenders.

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She will be back in court in August on the concealment charges and again in September for the remaining fraud charge.