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On Friday authorities found the remains of 11 infants in a Detroit, Michigan funeral home.
The bodies were stashed in a closet crawlspace hidden between the first and second floor of Cantrell funeral home. Nine were in a cardboard box and two were in a small white casket individually wrapped, some embalmed and others mummified, said Naveed Syed, the building’s owner.
“Some of the bodies had a tag on referring back to 2009, some had receipts on them as if the person or family didn’t finish paying,” a Detroit Police Officer shared.
The state department shut down the business in April because of “deplorable, unsanitary conditions and other violations,” it said in a statement on Saturday.
It found that embalmed bodies had been stored for months in a garage without refrigeration, and that some were badly decomposed. It listed violations including “fraud, deceit, or dishonesty, incompetence, and gross negligence in the practice of mortuary science,” according to the NY Times.