His wife Kaling Wald left him in bed and sealed up the bedroom in their Hamilton, Ontario, home to prevent the odor of decomposition from disturbing the busy household, which included five of the couple's six children, as well as other adults living in the home. Kaling Wald, 50, pleaded guilty to failing to notify police that her husband had died, an offense under the provincial Coroner's Act, and was sentenced on Monday to probation and counseling, her lawyer told Reuters on Tuesday.  TORONTO A Canadian family lived with a corpse in their upstairs bedroom for six months because they believed the deceased man would be resurrected if they prayed, but the body was discovered when the family was evicted for not paying the mortgage. Peter Wald, 52, died in March 2013 of what authorities believe were natural causes following a foot infection linked to his diabetes, defense lawyer Peter Boushy said. No criminal activity or public health concerns: coroner 
 
 Wald’s body sat in the room until September, when the sheriff came to evict them from the home after they defaulted on the mortgage. The Children’s Aid Society was previously called in, but found no concerns for the children's well-being and the case was closed, the Spectator reported.
– "There clearly was an over-exuberance of one's faith" in a Canadian woman who lived with her husband's corpse for six months while she and five of their children prayed for his resurrection, a court heard this week. Kaling Wald's husband, Peter, is believed to have died in March last year, but the 52-year-old's decomposing body remained in a room in their Hamilton, Ontario, home—sealed to prevent the smell getting out—until that September when the sheriff arrived to evict the family for defaulting on their mortgage, the Hamilton Spectator reports. She told investigators that the family and seven adult friends who lived in the home all prayed daily for him to come back to life. Neighbors tell the CBC that Peter Wald was a deeply religious man who had Christian sayings and symbols on his van and even his clothes. He had diabetes, and authorities believe he died of natural causes. His wife was initially charged with neglect of duty regarding a dead body and offering an indignity to a body, but that was reduced to a single charge of failing to notify police or the coroner of the death; prosecutors agreed there was no ill intent. On Monday, she was given a suspended sentence and told to get counseling. Her lawyer tells Reuters that his client now understands the law, is remorseful, and after court proceedings, has finally felt able to properly grieve for her husband. (In Detroit last year, two brothers hoping for resurrection allegedly stole their 92-year-old father's body from a cemetery.)