Woman Who Keeps Her Mother's Corpse for a Year in Order to Claim Her Benefits (Photo)

 

The woman, Mary Kersting, kept the decomposing body of her 93-year-old mother, Hope Ruller, in her flat in Gloversville, Upstate New York for more than a year after she died.

According to Mirror Online, Mary also stole more than $13,000 (£8,600) in social security checks belonging to Hope Ruller.
 
Kersting lied to her niece about her mother still being alive. Later she claimed she couldn’t afford to have her mother buried.
 

Fulton County Public Defender Gerald McAuliffe explained that: "She also explained that one day led to the next and although she thought about calling authorities. She just didn’t do it."

Although Hope Fuller has now been buried next to her husband, Kerting's niece, who didn’t want to be identified, said her grandmother ‘left this earth with no dignity’.
 
Apart from the six months sentence, Kersting was also ordered to carry out 500 hours of community service.