Andrea Giesbrecht to plead guilty to some fraud charges, lawyer says
Accused in Winnipeg dead infants case returns to court Oct. 22 to deal with fraud case
Andrea Giesbrecht, the Winnipeg woman accused of concealing the remains of six infants in a storage locker last year, plans to plead guilty to some unrelated fraud charges.
The 41-year-old woman is accused of defrauding Employment and Income Assistance of more than $5,000 between Dec. 1, 2011, and May 1, 2012.
She has also been charged with fraud under $5,000 for allegedly defrauding Xtra Cash Ltd., a payday advance business, in the period between Dec. 12, 2012, and March 21, 2013.
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Her lawyer, Greg Brodsky, confirmed to CBC News that Giesbrecht plans to enter a guilty plea to some of the fraud charges.
Giesbrecht appeared in court on Wednesday, but the case was put over because the Crown wanted more time to review defence documents, Brodsky said.
She is scheduled to return to court on Oct. 22 to deal with the fraud charges.
Giesbrecht previously pleaded guilty to fraud over $5,000 for borrowing $7,850 from an elderly woman, then writing bad cheques and not repaying her.
Court has heard that Giesbrecht, also known as Andrea Naworynski, had struggled with a gambling addiction for at least 14 years.
Meanwhile, Giesbrecht faces six counts of concealing bodies of infants after the remains were found on Oct. 20, 2014, inside a U-Haul storage locker that she had been renting. She will go to trial on those charges in April 2016.