The mummified remains of an infant, with blue stones covering its eyes, is displayed at the Houston Museum of Natural Science in Texas
The mummified remains of an infant, with blue stones covering its eyes, is displayed at the Houston Museum of Natural Science in Texas August 17, 2010. A Bronze-age woman, accompanied by a 2,800 year old mummified infant, is on loan to the U.S. for a three-stop tour. The mummies, both from what is now Xinjiang, China's most western province, will be on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science before traveling to Philadelphia. Picture taken August 17, 2010. REUTERS/Alyson Zepeda

A 40-year-old woman was charged after baby corpses had been found in a storage locker in Canada. While it was initially thought there were at least three corpses, now it is believed that there are six.

Andrea Naworynski aka Andrea Giesbrecht was arrested in The Maples neighbourhood as she was charged with six counts of concealing the body of a child, CBC News reported. It was a routine inventory of a U-Haul facility in Winnipeg that the staff was performing with a delinquent owner when the baby corpses were found. Police were immediately called as the decomposed corpses were removed from the storage.

Police said that autopsies were being performed on the remains of the baby corpses. It is going to reveal the age of the babies and the cause of death. At the same time, the DNA analysis and the forensic examination will determine if Giesbrecht is the mother of the babies. According to the news release by police, it is going to be a lengthy process of examination that will take months. While the child-abuse unit is investigating, the homicide unit may also join in depending on further advancements.

Giesbrecht's lawyer Greg Brodsky said that his client was bewildered by the charges she faced. According to Brodsky, his client was initially arrested on multiple murder charges. However, she faces six counts of concealing a body, The Star reported. He said that everything would depend on the forensic results. Giesbrecht is also charged with breach of probation related to two fraud convictions in 2012. Brodsky said that he would try to set a bail hearing date for his client on Thursday. "I can tell you this is a weird case, a very difficult case, a case that should be investigated thoroughly and I'm hoping that the authorities do that," he said. Brodsky earlier referred to remains as bodies or possible foetuses. When asked why, he said that forensic reports would determine that.

Police earlier said that the deaths of the babies were "suspicious." Nevertheless, officers discouraged any forced conclusion as the investigation was still at an early age. The U-Haul Company of Central Canada issued a statement that said it was "deeply shocked and saddened by" the discovery.

Contact the writer: s.mukhopadhyay@ibtimes.com.au

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