Joseph Skelly sentenced to prison time in death of Treasa Oberly [Video]

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The man who cut up the body of his grandson’s mother is going to prison after the Alberta Court of Appeal overturned his previous sentence.

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Joseph Skelly was sentenced to 12 months of house arrest and 12 months of curfew in March after he pleaded guilty to causing indignity to a body in the death of Treasa Oberly, 40, of Beaumont.

On Oct. 16 the appeals court found Joseph’s sentence “demonstrably unfit” and sentenced him to 36 months in prison, less 21 days credit for 14 days of pretrial custody and credit for time served on the conditional sentence in March.

Joseph must turn himself in no later than 2 p.m. on Oct. 28.

Joseph’s son Kenneth Skelly, who was Oberly’s common-law husband and the father of her son, is charged with second-degree murder in her death.

According to the …