BOSTON (AP) Two members of a religious sect who have spent four months in jail for refusing to give investigators information about their baby were headed back to court for another contempt hearing.
But this time, Rebecca and David Corneau could be released.
The Corneaus, members of a small religious group known as ''The Body,'' have been jailed since February for refusing to cooperate with state investigators seeking information about Rebecca Corneau's latest birth.
The Corneaus claim Rebecca had a late-term miscarriage in November.
But officials from the state Department of Social Services have said they are concerned that the Corneaus may be hiding the baby.
The Corneaus have been in jail on contempt charges since Feb. 5, after they refused to comply with Bristol County Juvenile Court Judge Kenneth Nasif's order to either produce their baby, or say where its remains are buried.
Earlier this month, Nasif indicated that he might free the Corneaus after a contempt hearing scheduled for Tuesday morning in Attleboro Juvenile Court. Nasif noted that a grand jury is now investigating the case.
The Corneaus' lawyer, J.W. Carney Jr., declined to comment.
Carol Yelverton, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Social Services, said the department continues to be concerned about the Corneaus' baby, particularly because the sect does not believe in modern medicine.
''We have very deep concerns over the welfare and well-being of children who don't receive medical care and whose other needs may be neglected,'' Yelverton said Monday.
Another Corneau baby, Jeremiah, died during a home birth in 1999. The Corneaus said the baby was stillborn. State investigators said the baby's lungs were not properly cleared a routine procedure in hospital births.
The Corneaus were not charged in that death, but they lost custody of their four other children.
The sect has come under fire from the state since 1999, when authorities learned that both Jeremiah, and another child of sect members 1-year-old Samuel Robidoux were missing.
After receiving immunity from prosecution, David Corneau led investigators to the bodies, buried in Baxter State Park in Maine.
Prosecutors charged Samuel Robidoux's parents Karen and Jacques Robidoux in his starvation death.
Jacques Robidoux was convicted Friday of first-degree murder. Karen Robidoux is scheduled to stand trial in September on a charge of second-degree murder.
Authorities said Samuel was starved over 51 days in 1999 after Jacques Robidoux's sister, Michelle Mingo, said she received a prophecy from God to take the boy off solid food and feed him only his mother's breast milk. Mingo is charged as being an accessory to assault and battery on a child.