Last night, 7News told you about the controversy over the grave in the Lord Ridge Cemetery which the Belize City Council had to break open so that they could exhume a body which they buried in the wrong plot. We also showed you a photograph taken by our colleague from Love News which depicts human remains inside a garbage bag which was reportedly left out in the sun.
But as you saw last night, CitCo's PR Officer, Kenny Morgan, is disputing that the photo depicted human remains, and he refused to accept that it is even in the realm of possibility. Well, the mother of the deceased whose grave had to be disturbed strongly believes that those remains were her son's. She told 7News today that City Hall has been dodging the question.
Sharon Middleton - Family Member's Grave Disturbed By CitCo.
"I went to watch the Holy Cross country race Saturday morning. While coming back I decided to stop at the burial ground to visit my son's grave. When I went to my son's grave I saw that it was broken and it was tampered with and that someone else was in it. I went to the Belize City Council and they told me that they had made an error. They just told me that they made an error and that they put the person in the wrong grave. That person should have been buried beside my son. Wednesday night they took me to the burial ground to have them remove the body from there. Watching the news Thursday evening I saw that they had a bag of human remains and I wanted to know if that is my son's remains that was going around in the cemetery there."
Daniel Ortiz
"Were you there to witness for yourself when the body was exhumed?"
Sharon Middleton
"I was there when the body was exhumed but I don't know if they had the remains in a bag and hiding somewhere from me where I couldn't see it."
Daniel Ortiz
"I'm guessing that this concerns you greatly that this error even happen in the first place"
Sharon Middleton
"It's really bothering me for an error like this to happen in our cemetery. I went this morning to verify and they told me that they didn't tamper with my son's remains down there but I am still not satisfied with that. I will keep on checking to do a follow up because my son has been buried from ten years ago there and they just opened a fresh wound on me over again. I now have to deal with my son's death over again after ten years and I don't think it's right that I have to go through that situation again. Nobody's remains should be left out that way in the sun for an entire day."
The Belize City Council attributes the mix-up to a grave numeration error by their cemetery personnel.
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