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DETROIT (AP) – Police removed the remains of 63 fetuses from a Detroit funeral home and regulators put an end to the case while the investigation was ongoing during the summer months. an increasingly wide-ranging investigation into alleged irregularities in local funeral homes.
Detroit police chief James Craig said police found 36 fetuses in boxes and 27 others in freezers during Friday's attack at Perry Funeral Home. He said he was "stunned" by this discovery, occurring a week after the discovery of the remains of 10 fetuses and an infant in a ceiling of the now defunct Cantrell funeral home in Detroit. These remains were found after Lansing's tutelary authorities received an anonymous letter.
Michigan Licensing and Regulatory Affairs said the remains found at the Perry funeral home had been handed over to state investigators, who immediately declared the funeral home closed and his license suspended.
Inspectors from Michigan State's Corporate, Securities and Business Licensing Office said in a statement they discovered "odious conditions and careless behavior" at Perry Funeral Home, including numerous failures to certify death certificates and obtaining burial permits.
The agency's statement indicates that Friday's findings clearly state criminal offenses to state laws governing funeral homes that could constitute crimes "punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment." 10 years or a fine of up to US $ 50,000 ".
Craig said the Perry funeral home investigation had begun after a man who had filed a lawsuit for the treatment of leftover infants and fetuses had covered the discoveries of the Cantrell Funeral Home and had asked his lawyer to contact the police.
The lawsuit, filed in July, alleges that Perry Funeral Home has kept the remains of stillbirths alive at the morgue of the Wayne State University morgue science school for up to three years without parents being notified. some wanting to donate it. organizations for medical research. He also alleges that the funeral home allegedly fraudulently charged Medicaid, as well as the Detroit Medical Center, for burials never performed.
The attorneys in this lawsuit, Peter J. Parks and Daniel W. Cieslak, said they believed that many other baby remains could be found in the irregular possession of the Perry funeral home, possibly up to 200, based on research records maintained by the Wayne State University School of Mortuary Science.
"I really wonder where are all the others," Cieslak said Friday.
Craig said law enforcement was considering forming a task force to combat the inappropriate storage of human remains and fraud in the region.
As part of the broader investigative investigation, Detroit police also raided another funeral home, the QA Cantrell Funeral Home located in Eastpointe, a suburb of Detroit, as well as a home at Grosse Pointe Woods.
The recent discovery of 10 fetuses and a baby at Cantrell Funeral Home came after state inspectors shut down the case after discovering 21 poorly stored bodies, some covered with mold.
Since April, 38 unattended bodies and 269 containers of cremated remains have been discovered in the facility.
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