In Canada . . .
Peter Wald’s family truly believed he would rise from the dead.
They believed it because they had prayed for it, every single day, while his corpse lay rotting for six months in an upstairs bedroom of their Hamilton home.
When neighbours asked about her husband, curious about the 52-year-old man’s seeming disappearance, Kaling Wald would tell them he was “in God’s hands now.”
On Monday, Kaling, 50, pleaded guilty to failing to notify police or the coroner that her husband had died due to a sickness that was not being treated by a doctor. It’s the first known case of its kind (involving the resurrection belief) in Canada.
The criminal charges originally laid in the case – neglect of duty regarding a dead body and offering an indignity to a body – were withdrawn and replaced with that single charge under the Coroner’s Act.
Kaling had no ill intent, all agreed. As assistant crown attorney Janet Booy put it, the devout Christian woman’s faith had “tainted and warped her better judgment.”
“We were trusting God…we thought, ‘OK Lord, you know better,” Kaling told the Spectator after court Monday, with lawyer Peter Boushy by her side.
One person’s faith is another person’s crazy, kinda like one woman’s romantic is another woman’s stalker.
My ex-wife's mother on the death of my ex-wife's step-brother: "You just have to go lay hands on him, and pray, and bring him back to life in the name of Jesus!"
I had to sit by the phone for three days to make sure she didn't call back and say it to the kid's mom. There are a lot of kooks out there. And they vote.