Bodies of 11 people — including infants — found rotting in funeral home

Mark Allen, the previous proprietor of a funeral house bearing his title, faces 22 legal costs in wake of the invention.
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A Los Angeles mortician allowed 11 deceased our bodies to rot at his funeral house — together with the our bodies of infants, officers mentioned.

Mark Allen, the previous proprietor of a funeral house bearing his title in Solar Valley, faces 22 legal costs for failing to correctly keep and bury non-cremated human stays, the LA Metropolis Legal professional’s Workplace mentioned in an announcement final week.

The stays have been discovered “in numerous phases of decay and mummification” on two separate events over the previous yr, officers mentioned.

The putrefied our bodies have been found by authorities after they acquired a number of complaints from relations of the deceased.

The Mark B. Allen Mortuary and Cremations Companies has since shut down.

In response to a petition to close down the funeral house filed by the state Cemetery and Funeral Bureau, the our bodies have been discovered April 2021 in a storage unit that had a temperature of roughly 60 levels when an company employee beforehand visited the mortuary. 

Officers noticed a “swarm of flies buzzing round” the unit’s exhaust vent, and famous a “foul and overwhelmingly robust” odor of decay, the petition mentioned.

“We’re preventing to get justice for these households on this extremely unhappy and surprising scenario,” Metropolis Legal professional Mike Feuer mentioned in an announcement. 

Los Angeles Metropolis Legal professional Mike Feuer known as the funeral house incident a “monstrous mistreatment,” of households.

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“Eleven individuals died, together with very younger youngsters, and the funeral director employed to compassionately put together the our bodies for burial allegedly simply allow them to rot, with neither the decency nor the dignity that each one our family members deserve,” he added. “Their deaths are one tragedy, and this alleged monstrous mistreatment is a second tragedy.”

Allen faces up a most sentence of 11 years in jail and $110,000 in fines — $10,000 for every physique — for violating California Well being and Security Codes.