A household is suing Leahy-McDonald Funeral House in Ricmond Hills, Queens after it allegedly allowed a relative to steal the ashes of their lifeless mom.
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A household feud between a girl and her lifeless sister’s children acquired so dangerous, she allegedly stole her sibling’s ashes from a Queens funeral residence, a lawsuit claims.
The merciless deceit performed out when the girl pretended to be her niece, and known as Leahy-McDonald Funeral House in Richmond Hill asking to have a younger relative choose up the ashes of Mohie Mangru, 71, in accordance with courtroom papers.
The power launched Mangru’s ashes, with out confirming that the girl who known as was really Mangru’s daughter, a lawsuit claims.
The daughter, Noressa Bethune, turned suspicious when nobody known as her after her mother’s Feb. 28, 2021, funeral to retrieve the stays, she mentioned in courtroom papers.
Bethune claims she was advised “that solely she would obtain the loss of life certificates and decedent’s ashes as a result of she signed the contract” with the funeral residence, in accordance with a Queens Supreme Courtroom lawsuit filed by Bethune and her siblings.
She later discovered one other individual had claimed the ashes — and unfold them earlier this month at Rockaway Seaside, in accordance with a dwell Fb video.
Bethune and her aunt don't get alongside, mentioned Bethune’s lawyer, Eric Rothstein, who mentioned the aunt is the one who known as the funeral residence pretending to be Bethune, and is believed to have unfold the ashes. Bethune and her siblings usually are not suing their aunt, Rothstein mentioned.
The funeral residence says in a March 2 authorized submitting responding to Bethune’s claims that it’s not completely in charge for the error, which was “induced” by the lifeless lady’s kids.
A lawyer for the funeral residence didn't return a message searching for remark.
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