baby's coffin empty (trigger warning)

[Copperbeech33]

A mother who has spent 42 years arguing that the baby she was told to say goodbye to in the morgue was not hers, finally got an order to exhume the body for DNA testing, and the coffin was found to be empty.

There's a difference between the admittedly appalling routine treatment of stillborn babies and babies who died in utero in the past the lack of humanity, no indication that these were small humans and what sounds in this case like an attempt to mislead/defraud. This woman was shown a dead baby which looked nothing like her own baby, and told she was confused/had PND when she protested, and now it seems the deception continued to burying an empty coffin. Potentially another Alder Hey?

Could they ever did out what happened to the body ofGary?

My stomach lurched reading that. Poor woman. It's appalling how babies and parents have been treated over the years.
Similar happened in Ireland, with parents not being told where their children where buried. Absolutely abhorrent practice.

MoGhileMear

I totally agree... horrendous and can't even fathom

My son died in 2008 and was cremated at Mortonhall in Edinburgh. We wee told there were no ashes. Several years later we found out that there were and his ashes had been dumped somewhere on the grounds. Like 100s of others before and after him. This led to a national review in Scotland and changes to how babies are dealt with after death. However, I'm not naive enough to believe it only happened in a few places.

Poor lady. How devastating.

indy I am so sorry

I think that the hardest thing in this case is that as she didn't see her son's body, there must be a small bit of doubt in her mind on wether if he really did die or not.

indyandlara Im so so sorry.

Kpo58 I agree, if I was her I’d be wondering if he was still alive somewhere, or racking my brains and torturing myself wondering what the hospital or mortuary could of done to him after he died.

This is reminding me of the Alder Hey scandal. Parents and babies over the years have been treated so cruelly. Its just abhorrent, unthinkable. Dispicaple. I cannot comprehend.