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Article: Georgia case sparks reports of funeral industry abuses; Incidents nationwide prompt calls for federal oversight and regulation.(NATION)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 23, 2002
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Byline: Joyce Howard Price, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The discovery last week of hundreds of unburied corpses near a Georgia crematory has sparked reports of abuses in the funeral industry elsewhere in the country and calls for federal oversight of all funeral vendors.
The incident in Georgia is the most recent in a series of bizarre occurrences:
*In Riverside, Calif., prosecutors have charged a crematory owner with removing parts from bodies intended for cremation and selling them to medical research institutions. Michael Francis Brown, 42, owner of Pacific Cremation Care, has pleaded not guilty to 156 felony counts of unlawful mutilation of human ...