MONTICELLO, N.Y. (AP/1010 WINS) -- An upstate New York man who hid his dead 98-year-old mother in a freezer and cashed her Social Security checks has been sentenced to six months in jail.
Rosland Auslander stuffed Herta Auslander's body in the freezer at their Delaware County home after she died of natural causes. He then cashed her checks for at least 18 months.
Police found the body in October 2008 at their home in the hamlet of Cooks Falls, about 100 miles northwest of New York City.
Auslander was sentenced Friday in Sullivan County, where the checks were cashed. He was also given five years probation and a mental health examination was ordered.
The 70-year-old Auslander pleaded guilty to grand larceny and fraud charges in July. He still faces a charge of unlawfully disposing of a body in Delaware County.
E-Mail Story
Print Story
