Woman Lived with Dead Hubby for Months Because She Thought Prayer Would Bring Him Back to Life

This week, Canadian courts heard the case of a woman living with her dead husband for months because she believed prayer would bring him back to life.

Peter Wald, 51, is believed to have died in March in his Hamilton, Ontario home.

Yet his wife, Kaling, decided not to bury him or notify anyone of his death. Instead, she and her five children, as well as other adults who lived in her home, prayed that Peter may be receive the gift of resurrection as found in the New Testament.

“Kaling and her five children who resided in the house are devout Christians and thought Peter would be resurrected and therefore kept the door locked and waited for him to come to life,”  Crown counsel Janet Booy wrote in the court documents. “There were also friends who resided at the house. They all prayed on a daily basis for Peter to come back to life.”

For months, Peter’s body remained in the home – sealed off in a room to reduce odors – until finally in September the police arrived to evict the occupants due to non-payment of the mortgage.

Once they arrived, authorities discovered Peter’s body in an advanced state of decomposition and an investigation against Kaling was launched.

Kaling was initially charged with neglect of duty regarding a dead body as well as offering an indignity to a corpse, but those charges were ultimately reduced when both parties agreed she was not acting out of malice towards her husband or his remains.

​As a result, in court this week, Kaling  pleaded guilty to the single charge of  failing to notify police or the coroner of a death.

She received a suspended sentence and was ordered into counseling.

Her lawyer, Peter Boushy, said Kaling’s actions were all a result of her fervent faith.

“Just as Jesus raised Lazarus after the fourth day, so too did she believe God would resurrect her husband in due time,” he said.

Photo Credit: CBC Hamilton (Peter Wald’s van filled covered in religious slogans)