‘Like She Was Trash': Stillborn Baby Thrown Out With Waste at Calif. Funeral Home

Police are investigating after a contractor for a California funeral home inadvertently tossed the body of a stillborn baby into the trash.

An employee from a contracted transport service inadvertently discarded the fetus into a waste container and a search of the remains at a landfill came up emptyPolice were investigating Monday after a contractor for a California funeral home inadvertently tossed the body of a stillborn baby into the trash, officials said.

Employees at Cherokee Memorial Funeral Home in Lodi contacted authorities on Saturday after discovering the body was missing from storage, police said in a Investigators reviewed surveillance video from the facility and “discovered that an employee from a contracted transport service discarded an item containing the fetus into a waste container” two weeks earlier, the Lodi police statement said.

The body could not be retrieved because all waste containers at the funeral home had been taken by a collection company, the statement said. A search of a landfill came up empty, police said.

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