Dead infants case: Remains could be 10 years old, lawyer says

The defence lawyer for Andrea Giesbrecht, the woman accused of concealing the remains of six infantsin a Winnipeg storage locker, says the remains could be up to 10 years old.

Greg Brodsky is representing Giesbrecht, who was charged with six counts of concealing the body of a child after police discovered human remains in a U-Haul locker on Oct. 20.

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On Friday, Brodsky delayed a bail hearing for his client for the third time. He said hes still waiting for an expanded autopsy report on the remains.

These remains seem to me to be eight or 10 years old, and wed like some confirmation of that, he said. Thats one of the reasons we wanted the independent pathologist or the pair of knowing eyes at the time of autopsy.

Earlier this year, Brodsky lost a court challenge to have the autopsies witnessed by an independent pathologist.

He saidhis team has only been given a preliminary autopsy report.

Brodsky suspects the infants were stillborn, but doesn't have an expanded autopsythat might confirm his thinking.

We still dont have the completed autopsy, and we still dont have confirmation that nothing was done to interfere with these products of conception that wouldve caused a death or interfered with a live birth, he said.

There isnot yet an indication of who the infant remains belonged to.

Were waiting for a DNA analysis. We dont have it yet, he said. I dont want someone to think theres someone out there killing people so many of them.