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Subscribe to RSSA Brooklyn family whose baby was stillborn has filed a $5 million lawsuit against the city after learning they buried the wrong body in their native Poland because of a mix-up at the medical examiner's office.
"I'm hurt to the point where I can't move forward," said Justyna Sliwa, who was pregnant for five months before her baby was stillborn in May. "I want my baby put to peace."
Sliwa and her husband, Rafal, held a memorial service in Brooklyn on June 16. The funeral home sent the remains to the couple's hometown of Lomza, Poland, where a Roman Catholic funeral was held June 19.
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They learned weeks later of the mistake. Now, they said they have filed a $5 million claim against the city for mixing up the baby they named "Angel."
Information on the other family was not made public. A spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office, Ellen Borakove, said the babies had "strikingly similar names.''
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The office is investigating how the mix-up occurred.
Borakove called it a "tragic, unfortunate error we have to make right.''
This article includes reporting by The Associated Press and NBCNewYork.com.
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Five Million will make her feel better. Sorry I just lost any sypmathy for her. I have had two stillborn
babies so I know what it is to lose them but this is just rank opportunism.
Why people come to USA and then wants or send loved ones to be buried in the country where they had no opportunity to live a happy life, if there is that wonderful, then move back there. Five months miscarriage with two fetus side by side is a hard way to identify. Yes, they should had put wrist tags on them, but some parents don`t even do funeral for miscarriages like this one. It`s smelling Easy Money!!!
When will Americans' understand the difference between homosexuals and pedophiles. The are very different aspects of human sexuality.
And I bet the people that made the mistake couldn't care less. and or even cares to know enough to even have to care. nice plight Uhmericuh........... we are already a third world country. SHUT THE GATES! DON'T LET ANYMORE IN!!!!!!!!!!!.
what the heck's the difference ??????????????????????????
one stillborn baby another stillborn baby, they are 2 dead bodies in the ground now. exhuming and a $ windfall because.. ??? c'mon people our priorities are f$$$$'ed up! we got better things we could do with 5 million, like feeding starving people in india.
You are correct...but in the USA people love that chance to play the judicial joke system lottery.
Sue the hospital for not being able to keep track of the dead children, just how hard could this be. Total slackers.
5 million dollar claim because they put the wrong rotting carcass in a hole?
People's obsession with death is interesting. So what? they do not need, nor should they get anything over the funeral costs they incurred. It is a rotting carcass...nothing more.
Get pregnant again and push out a kid that is not weak genetically, thus is born alive.
Welcome to the USA, home of the giant payouts.
It is always sad to hear of a life that never got a chance to start and it is also sad to see what I believe in this case is that the parents are wanting to profit over what was obviously an error on a professionals part, but to say that that error is worth 5 mil.
I'm blown away by the heartless,thoughtless,indifferent comments left by some of the people here. Obviously they have never experienced anything on this measure and leads me to believe they have little thought to humanity.
$5million? Sure. Just living the American Dream. Suing someone with deep pockets comes in right below winning the lottery as life's dream.