Perry Funeral Home

July. The lawsuit, filed in Wayne County Circuit Court, claims that defendants in the case breached contracts by not properly taking possession of, transporting and or storing the deceased remains of infant bodies after requesting donation for purposes of research. This comes after 63 infant remains were found inside Perry Funeral Home on Friday, Oct. 19 during a raid led by the Detroit Police Department. The remains were located in unrefrigerated boxes and inside of a deep freezer in the funeral home. The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) has since revoked the funeral home's license and shut the facility down.In the lawsuit, it states that the defendant, Rachel Brown, of Detroit, gave birth to a baby girl on Dec. 8, 2014 at Harper-Hutzel Hospital in Detroit. The child died 30 minutes after birth. Shortly after, Brown and her husband were approached by personnel at the hospital and asked about donating their child's remains to Wayne State University Medical School for "purposes of medical education and research, or to have the child's remains transferred to a funeral home for burial." Brown and her husband donated their child's remains "in the hope that it would assist medical science and research," according to court documents. The lawsuit claims that the defendants in the case never undertook to facilitate transfer of the infant's body to the medical school. The body was instead left abandoned at the hospital, which is when Perry Funeral Home was asked to take possession of the remains for final disposition. "Perry Funeral Home took possession of those remains and kept them at the Wayne State Mortuary Science Morgue instead of making final disposition of those remains in a timely manner," said Daniel Cieslak, an attorney representing the family. Plaintiffs in the case also claim that at no time were they provide documentation or contacted regarding a decision to me...

This is deeply disturbing,” Craig said at a news conference, hours after police raided Perry Funeral Home and allegedly seized 63 fetus or infant bodies, more than half of which were packed together in unrefrigerated boxes. “We want to understand the reasons: Is it financial gain? If so, how? Who knew or who else is involved in this?” The raid came a week after an anonymous letter led investigators to an abandoned funeral home on the other side of central Detroit, where they allegedly found nearly a dozen infant corpses hidden in a ceiling. “I would like to look at you and tell you I hope … that this is isolated to these two. I can’t say that with certainty,” Craig told reporters, shortly after leaving a meeting with FBI and state investigators. “This is much larger than we might know.” The police chief gave few details about the investigation, and declined to speculate as to what would motivate someone to keep tiny desiccated corpses long after they were supposed to have been interred. All the same, he described how the case escalated rapidly from a single anonymous tip into a full-blown investigative task force that could now probe businesses throughout the state. The case began last week at Cantrell Funeral Home in east Detroit, which had been shuttered since the spring over accusations that adult corpses had been improperly stored to the point of growing mold. An unsigned letter received on Oct. 12 urged investigators to return to the business and search it. The note led them to what police described as a hidden compartment in a ceiling — containing a casket, cardboard boxes, several trash bags and the remains of 11 dead infants. [Inside an abandoned funeral home: A hidden compartment, a casket — and 11 dead infants] Speaking to reporters on the night of that discovery, a police sergeant attributed to bodies' condition to “just the callousness of the owner, the operators, the employees of the funeral home.” Nevertheless, police ope...