ATTLEBORO, Mass. – A sect member charged with murder for allegedly starving to death her baby who was buried in Maine wants to be tried separately from her husband.

An attorney for Karen Robidoux made the motion for a separate trial from Jacques Robidoux, saying she could try to at least partially blame her husband for their son’s death, the Providence Journal reported.

Jacques Robidoux also faces murder charges in the April 1999 death of the couple’s son, Samuel. Samuel died three days before his first birthday.

“What I was trying to convey to the court is that the potential is there for a defense that is antagonistic to his,” lawyer C. Samuel Sutter said.

Prosecutors said the couple was following the instructions of Jacques Robidoux’s sister, Michelle Mingo, who said she’d had a vision from God that Samuel could not consume solid food.

The Robidouxs were arrested after police found their son’s body buried in Baxter State Park in Maine alongside the body of a baby boy born to another sect couple, David and Rebecca Corneau.

The Corneaus were not charged because their baby died of natural causes shortly after birth, prosecutors said.

The sect, called The Body, does not believe in modern medical treatment.

The Corneaus are currently embroiled in a separate dispute with authorities. They are appealing a judge’s order that they be sent to prison for failing to turn over to the state a baby state officials think Rebecca Corneau recently delivered.

The Corneaus’ lawyer said the state hasn’t proved a baby exists.