New revelations in the case of Andrea Giesbrecht surfaced Friday.
Giesbrecht is the woman accused of hiding the remains of six infants in a storage locker.
"These products of conception were there for eight to 10 years,” said her lawyer Greg Brodsky on Friday, also calling them fetuses.
While experts are still examining the remains found nearly two months ago, Brodsky said he's confident none of the six were ever alive or recently delivered.
"I'm not waiting for results to come back in order to formulate a position. I'm saying out loud these have been there a long time, eight or 10 years," he said.
Brodsky said if the Crown and investigators would be more transparent, it would show Giesbrecht didn't kill any infants.
"Nothing was done by at the time of delivery before or after to cause - I hesitate to use the word death - but to interfere with a life-birth, if I can use that term. And I'm saying that, and I'm saying you have the evidence to show that - give it to me," Brodsky added.
Ethics Professor Arthur Schafer said while some of the details may be horrifying to most, no one can really judge what happened yet.
And even if the remains ever lived, it won't be immediately clear there was a criminal offence.
“If there was a criminal offence and she was suffering, for example, from postpartum depression, then the court may well decide she wasn't competent and that there is no legal liability," said Schafer.
But it's still not known if Giesbrecht is even the mother. Brodsky is still waiting to see DNA and full autopsy results.
Brodsky said he's still waiting for X-rays to show there are no broken bones in the fetuses. He also said the fetuses were not beaten, not poisoned and died before being born. Brodsky adds maggots were found in storage locker with the fetuses and those have been sent to British Columbia for further examination.
He hopes that will reveal the ages of the remains.
Brodsky says the bail application for Giesbrecht won't happen now until after the new year.
The justice department would not comment on the case.
