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Trial Hears Woman Charged With Hiding Babies' Remains Talked About Self-Aborting

The Canadian Press, 22 Apr, 2016 12:27 PM
    WINNIPEG — The trial of a Winnipeg woman accused of concealing the remains of six infants has been told she hid one pregnancy and talked about self-aborting.
     
    Andrea Giesbrecht is accused of hiding the remains in a U-Haul storage locker before they were found by an employee in 2014.
     
    Court has already been told DNA tests have linked the infants to Giesbrecht and her husband.
     
    A former friend and co-worker of Giesbrecht, Danielle Devereaux, says Giesbrecht was pregnant in 1997 and did not tell her partner or her parents.
     
    Devereaux has testified that Giesbrecht talked to her about how she could abort the baby by herself at home.
     
    She says Giesbrecht had the baby and her family learned about it only after it was delivered.
     
    "It was never obvious (that she was pregnant). She would cover it with her sweater and pants," Devereaux testified Friday.
     
    "She talked about plans on how to abort the baby ... punching herself in the stomach or using a cost hanger."
     
    Devereaux said Giesbrecht also had a gambling problem, but the reason for wanting to hide the pregnancy was never clear.
     
    The trial was told by medical experts earlier this week that the six infants whose remains were found in the storage locker were at or near full term and are likely to have been born alive.
     
    Court also heard that Giesbrecht had 10 legal abortions between 1994 and 2011.

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