Family Sues NYC After Woman’s Body Mistakenly Sent To Medical School
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) The city medical examiners office treated a Bronx grandmother like garbage when it mistakenly shipped off her corpse to a medical school, the womans family alleges in a new lawsuit.
As WCBS 880′s Alex Silverman reported, the family of Aura Ballesteros, who died last month after reportedly battling heart disease and dementia, is suing the city for $5 million.
Her son, Hector Ballesteros, made arrangements for the Office of Chief Medical Examiner to hold the former psychologists body until family could travel to New York from Colombia. Instead, it was sent to Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University to be used for medical students, the familys lawyer, Sanford Rubenstein, said during a news conference Tuesday in Downtown Brooklyn.
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