Associated Press
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — A September 23 trial has been set for a Grand Forks woman charged with keeping the decomposed corpse of her young daughter at home while her two other children were present.
Jody Weaver faces charges of abuse or neglect of a child, willful disturbance of a dead body and failure to report a death.
The 38-year-old woman is accused of taking Destiny Weaver’s body to St. Hilaire, Minn.
The 2-year-old had been dead for about two weeks. The cause of death was not determined.
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Clarence Smith of Grgyla, Minn., was given 60 days in jail for his role in transporting the child’s body. Smith was Jody Weaver’s boyfriend.
