Friday, November 6th, 2009
NY man gets jail for cashing his dead mother's Social Security checks after freezing her body
MONTICELLO, N.Y. - An upstate New York man has been sentenced to six months in jail for hiding his dead 98-year-old mother in a freezer and cashing her government retirement checks.
Rosland Auslander stuffed Herta Auslander's body in the freezer at their home in the hamlet of Cooks Falls, about 100 miles (160 kilometres) northwest of New York City, after she died of natural causes, according to The Times Herald-Record of Middletown. He then cashed her checks Social Security checks for at least 18 months.
Police found the body in October 2008. Auslander, who is 70, pleaded guilty in July to grand larceny and forgery charges.
Auslander was sentenced Friday in a neighbouring county where the checks were cashed. He was also given five years probation and a mental health examination was ordered.
He still faces a charge of unlawfully disposing of a body.
