-- A devoutly religious Hamilton
woman named Kaling Wald who kept her husband's decomposing corpse
in a bedroom for six months because she was
convinced he would come back to life has pleaded
guilty to failing to notify authorities of his death from
an illness he was not getting treatment for. Kaling Wald was originally facing criminal charges of
neglect of duty regarding a dead body and offering
an indignity to a body, which could have carried a
sentence of up to five years in jail. Those charges
were withdrawn and replaced by a charge under the
Coroner's Act. She received a suspended sentence and 18 months
probation with counselling. A summary read in court for Monday's plea says
Wald told police her husband Peter suffered diabetes
but refused to seek treatment when his foot became
infected, believing God would cure him. Wald told them he went into a coma sometime in
March and died before the end of the month. According to the summary, Wald said she and her
five children -- who are between 11 and 22-years-old
-- are devout Christians and "thought Peter would be
resurrected and therefore kept the door locked and
waited for him to come to life." She, her children and their seven housemates prayed
daily for him to live again. Wald "locked the door to keep the children out, as
well as duct taped the door seams and vents
throughout the house to keep the smell out," the
Crown's summary reads. Authorities only learned what had happened in
September when they came to evict the couple, who
had defaulted on their mortgage, the document says. The sheriff then "discovered a body present on the
bed in a state of decomposition and mummification,"
it says. "The body was covered with two blankets,
had a toque on its head and the feet were observed
sticking out from the blankets." The left foot was also wrapped in gauze, it says. Police interviewed two of the couple's children and a
few roommates and all said they believed Peter Wald
would be resurrected.

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