MI - Eleven Infant Bodies Found - Detroit - 12 Oct 2018

[Deleted member 117884]

What?!

Why would the remains be kept??

I don't understand the motivation of keeping the remains and then treating them like trash tossed in the attic.

jmo

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Excellent NYT article: Remains of 63 Fetuses and Infants Found at Second Detroit Funeral Home

 

[teedie2]

Excellent NYT article: Remains of 63 Fetuses and Infants Found at Second Detroit Funeral Home

Your link gave me a subscription page. I tried incognito, and the article loaded, and said I had 4 free articles remaining.

In Virginia, many years ago, my OB told me that if a stillborn child weighed 2 pounds, the child must be buried or cremated. Don't know how it is now. Our baby was full-term, but she passed a week or so before delivery. The cord wrapped around her neck. So very. very sad. I feel for these parents, the ones who cared.

 

[PinkPrincessPoop]

Am I missing something? Was there financial gain to keeping infant corpses and fetuses? Is this hoarding?

It might be a financial thing.
I was actually having a conversation with someone last week about this story (back when we thought it was only that one funeral home with 11.....). While they said they were surprised it happened with humans, they did point out that this is not exactly uncommon with veterinarian clinics to save cost on fuel for the furnace.

 

[Richrd]

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Response from Second Funeral Home:

Remains of fetuses and infants found at second Detroit funeral home

>>> "... a funeral home cannot bury remains without proper authorization...
The Perry Funeral Home never received the... authority
necessary to conduct final disposition..."
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[cherrymeg]

It might be a financial thing.
I was actually having a conversation with someone last week about this story (back when we thought it was only that one funeral home with 11.....). While they said they were surprised it happened with humans, they did point out that this is not exactly uncommon with veterinarian clinics to save cost on fuel for the furnace.

Didn't they find animal remains that a vet had dumped somewhere? I don't remember where or what year that might have happened in.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Your link gave me a subscription page. I tried incognito, and the article loaded, and said I had 4 free articles remaining....

Not sure why; I don't subscribe to NYT. When I click the link, it goes directly to the article.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Funeral home probe of infant remains leaves parents in limbo

Investigation continues into Detroit funeral homes mishandling human remains

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Fetal remains found in Owosso funeral home

Owosso police investigate skeletal remains at shuttered funeral home

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Former manager at Cantrell Funeral Home in Detroit says investigators have not contacted her

 

[Iam Nana!]

Police: Most infant remains found at Detroit funeral home were fetuses

Detroit — Most of the infants' bodies discovered last week in the ceiling compartment of a Detroit funeral home were fetuses stuffed inside a cardboard box, Police Chief James Craig said Monday.

State authorities received an anonymous letter in the mail Friday that there were 11 infants' bodies hidden in the Cantrell Funeral Home on Mack Avenue. The facility had been shut down in April after state investigators found deplorable conditions, including decomposed bodies covered in mold...

 

[Iam Nana!]

illegal Abortion clinic on the side?

 

[cherrymeg]

illegal Abortion clinic on the side?

Is it possible abortion laws make disposing of stillbirths and miscarriages more complicated? Still that doesn't make sense. I thought maybe abortions too, but why keep the remains?

 

[Iam Nana!]

Is it possible abortion laws make disposing of stillbirths and miscarriages more complicated? Still that doesn't make sense. I thought maybe abortions too, but why keep the remains?

 

[Iam Nana!]

well it will be interesting to see the outcome

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Relatives sought for remains found at Cantrell Funeral Home

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Special task force begins probe into mishandling of remains at Detroit funeral homes

Investigating possible fraud

...The task force met Monday to assess progress. Detroit police and Michigan State police were looking at possible criminality. The FBI was there to help follow money trails, looking into possible fraud allegations...

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Parents of fetus found at Cantrell sue home, DMC

A Metro Detroit couple filed suit Wednesday against the Detroit Medical Center and Cantrell Funeral Home after learning their child's remains were among 11 infant bodies discovered hidden in the funeral home's ceiling in mid-October.

Whitney Morris and AJ Johnson are the parents of Baby Boy Morris, one of 10 fetuses whose remains were discovered, along with those of a newborn baby, after an anonymous tip led state inspectors and police to search a ceiling crawl space at the shuttered Mack Avenue funeral home on Oct. 12...

 

[april@]

This is just creepy!

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Letter alerting state to hidden fetuses: 'Look above the door'