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A funeral residence in Camden, New Jersey is dealing with allegations of putting the incorrect physique in a household’s deceased liked one’s garments.
The household first realized the heartbreaking mistake after they got here to examine the casket forward of a public viewing.
“At or round 4:00 p.m. on February seventeenth, Plaintiffs approached the casket supposedly holding Addison and have become instantly distressed and angered after they noticed one other unrecognizable corpse wearing Addison’s garments and belongings,” in line with a grievance filed on Sept. 5 by the household of Jenkins. “The Plaintiffs had been shocked, upset, confused and filled with tears.”
The household of Jenkins is accusing the funeral residence of negligence within the dealing with of human stays, amongst different costs.
A funeral residence in Camden, New Jersey is dealing with allegations of putting the incorrect physique in a household’s deceased liked one’s garments. (Google Maps)
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Addison Jenkins, who handed away in February 2023, had deliberate his funeral forward of time, selecting the Boyd Funeral House in Camden, New Jersey to deal with the companies.
Within the grievance, the household alleges that the funeral director wasn’t current after they needed to specific their issues and {that a} make-up artist from the funeral residence allegedly reassured them the physique was of Jenkins.
The grievance, nonetheless, says the household and funeral residence staff “continued to disagree with one another as to whose physique was within the casket.”
A funeral residence in Camden, New Jersey is dealing with allegations of putting the incorrect physique in a household’s deceased liked one’s garments. (iStock)
The Jenkins’ had been despatched images by the director to show that it was in truth their deceased liked one, however particular markings on the physique didn’t match their family members. They declare he had a cauliflower ear and a noticeable foot an infection, each of which weren’t current on the physique within the casket.
When the household considered the physique once more on Feb. 18, they requested the casket be open to look at the physique, and so they had been in a position to affirm it was certainly Jenkins.
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In a press release shared with PEOPLE on Tuesday, Oct. 22, Michael Shaw, an lawyer representing the plaintiffs, wrote: “What occurred to the Jenkins household and their late liked one, Addison Jenkins, is disturbing and reprehensible. To twist the knife, as soon as the Jenkins household knowledgeable the funeral residence of the wrongful conduct, the callous response was to level blame at my shoppers by persistently telling them that the incorrect and unidentified physique was their late liked one. Gaslighting a grieving household after displaying the incorrect corpse is merciless and ignoble.”
They’re asking for compensation and punitive damages in line with the grievance by way of trial by jury.
Grieving New Jersey household calls for justice for locating unrecognizable physique sporting liked one’s garments at view
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