Daily News | Brother of two MOVE bombing victims sues city, UPenn over the mishandling of their remains
The brother of two young girls killed in the 1985 MOVE bombing — whose remains languished for decades at the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office and the University of Pennsylvania — filed a lawsuit Monday against the city and the university for keeping the remains from him and his family.
“It means a great deal to me. My sister can’t speak for themselves, my mother can’t speak for herself,” he said. “I’m the voice for the voiceless.”“We look forward to the discovery process — I’m not sure the city does, or UPenn, but we do,” said Bakari Sellers, one of Dotson’s lawyers. He said his client’s rights have been “trampled on.
But the lawsuit alleges that Monge and Mann disagreed with them, contending that the bones instead belonged to an unidentified, much older woman, and, along with then-assistant medical examiner Robert Segal, “determined to disprove the findings” of the other investigators. The suit alleges Penn kept Katricia’s bones for “further evaluation,” but never made any significant progress toward identifying them.
Daniel Hartstein, a lawyer for Dotson, said he cited the Morton Collection as an example of scientific racism — similar to, he says, the treatment of Katricia Dotson.
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