Andrea Giesbrecht, accused of hiding bodies of infants, gets bail

The Winnipeg woman accused of concealing the remains of six infants found in a storage locker last fall has been granted bail.

Andrea Giesbrecht, 40, has been in custody since shortly after the remains of six infants were found in a McPhillips Street U-Haul storage locker in October. U-Haul employees made the discovery when they went to clean out the locker because rental payments had not been made.

Giesbrecht faces a long list of bail conditions, among them that she stay at a supervised facility. Where she will be staying is not being made public. 

If she becomes pregnant, she must notify her bail supervisor.

Giesbrecht is banned from being at any location where gambling takes place and must enrol in a number of programs, including Gamblers Anonymous and anger management. 

She pleaded guilty in 2013 to fraud and blamed her gambling addiction for borrowing nearly $8,000 from a 73-year-old woman and writing bad cheques to cover it. 

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Giesbrecht, who has been held in custody since her arrest last year, has had previous bail requests delayed several times in recent months.

Officially, she faces six charges of concealing a body. 

Her trial date has been set for April 18-22, 2016. 

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Police initially believed there were three or four bodies in various states of decomposition, but later increased that to six.

Giesbrecht's lawyer, Greg Brodsky, has said a forensic pathologist and a forensic anthropologist brought in by the Crown found no evidence of foul play. There is still nothing to indicate the infants were not stillborn, and the identity of any parents has not been determined, he said.