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Hamilton, Ont. – A devoutly religious Hamilton woman 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 Those charges were withdrawn and replaced by a charge under the Coroner’s Act.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.”
