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Grieving families outraged over NYC funeral home body-storage scandal
(NYPost April 30 2020)
https://nypost.com/2020/04/30/grieving-families-outraged-over-nyc-funeral-home-body-storage-scandal/
Outraged relatives flocked to a Brooklyn funeral home Thursday following the horrifying revelation that decomposing bodies were found piled up in un-refrigerated rental trucks outside and lying on the facility’s floor.
Tamisha Covington broke down in tears upon leaving the storefront business of Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Services in Flatlands, saying she got “no responses, no answers” about the body of her mom, who died April 9.
“They charged me $15,000 to lay my mother to rest and what am I getting out of the $15,000?” she said.
“I’m getting her body being in a U-Haul truck for however long. I’m buying dresses, I’m trying to work with these people to see the last viewing of my mother … and no contact, no nothing.”
Covington said her mother, Deborah Harris, 60, died in her arms at home after suffering a heart attack.
Harris wasn’t tested for the coronavirus but has been classified as a victim of the killer respiratory illness, Covington said.
“They said, within two weeks they would have my mother buried,” she said.
“This is too much on humanity. I’m really hurt. I don’t even know what I’m looking for other than the fact that I expect to lay my mother down properly with respect and at a reasonable time.”
A man who gave his name as Peter said he tried in vain to find out what had happened to his late ex-wife, who was brought to the funeral home Friday.
He said he was told at the time that “the refrigerators were filled and they were going to embalm her.”
“They just wanted to know that it wasn’t going to be conflicting with any religious whatever,” he said.
“And now they are saying she was in the refrigerator as soon as they brought her here on Friday, so I don’t know.”
Peter said he told a woman inside the business that he wanted to “see what condition” the body was in, but “she told me to come back later.”
“I’m frustrated. This is ridiculous,” he said.