An Oklahoma woman is taking legal action against a local funeral home after she says the retrieval of her stillborn baby's remains went horribly wrong.
Aurora Hartley said she was excited to become a mother, but that she was devastated when she went into preterm labor at 27 weeks in November of 2023. Hartley delivered a stillborn child, Hadley, and after the birth, turned Hadley's body over to the Medical Examiner's office in Oklahoma City so that an autopsy could be performed.
According to Hartley's lawyers, Hadley's body was then sent by the Medical Examiner's office to Alpha and Omega Mortuary to be cremated. Hartley then picked up what she thought were Hadley's cremated remains and hospital birthing blanket at Brown's Funeral Service in Coalgate, Oklahoma.
According to John Zelbst, Hartley's attorney, his client opened the birthing blanket and found the remains of the child, Oklahoma City CBS affiliate KWTV reported.
"You can only imagine the shock and disgust," the lawyer told local news.
Zelbst said the family returned to Brown's Funeral Service for more information only to find that they received an urn with an unknown person's ashes — not the remains of their child.
"We have an urn with ashes that no one knows who they belong to," Zelbst said. "It's not our clients' baby. So what family is missing their loved one?"
Zelbst said that the funeral home told Coalgate police that the ashes were not Hadley's remains, but that they were ashes of a cremated placenta.
"They give this excuse that it's the placenta, which is not a placenta. It has no characteristics of a cremation," said Zelbst, according to KWTV. "So that starts the cover-up."
Dan Markoff, another attorney representing Hartley, said he is waiting for the state board to step in and shut down one or both of the funeral service providers.
In April 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) investigated the operator of Alpha & Omega Mortuary Service and Crematory for violations of federal employment laws. The mortuary is operated by Stillwell Limited, Inc. The DOL said in a statement that Stillwell deprived its employees of overtime rate for time over 40 hours worked in a single week. The company also failed to keep proper records, as is required under federal law.
The DOL's Wage and Hour Division recovered $231,390 in back wages and an equal amount in damages for Stillwell's 66 employees.
"By denying their employees all of their hard-earned wages, Alpha and Omega Mortuary Service and Crematory violated the law and harmed the people on whom the company depends to work long hours to provide an important service to the community in return for low wages," said Wage and Hour Division District Director Michael Speer in Oklahoma City in a statement in April. "We are committed to protecting workers and providing clear and confidential compliance assistance to any employee or employer with questions."
Brown's Funeral Service did not respond to request for comment. Stillwell Limited, Inc. could not be reached for comment.
I really would like to know how this could even happen. Whose ashes have they had?
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Hitler was a Christian and so was his entire Nazi movement. Hitler attended a monastery school and was a communicant and an altar boy in the Catholic Church. Hitler was never excommunicated nor condemned by his church. In fact, the Church felt that he was just and "avenging for God" in attacking the Jews, since they deemed the Semites to be the killers of Jesus. Communism, on the other hand, was a Jewish movement and still is. All of the founding fathers of communism were Jews, and Jews were the only people allowed to freely practice their religion in the Soviet Union, where anti-Semitism was punishable by death (a fact which was actually advertised to American Jews in an attempt to lure them to the USSR).
Yes, I am fully aware of that. It still pales in comparison to the amount of oppression that was carried out (and continues to be carried out) by Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
I'm not denying that in any way. If religion didn't exist, humans would just find something else to justify their intrinsically evil and violent nature. But, as it stands, religion (and especially Abrahamic religion) is the #1 force for human evil without a doubt.
LOL, seriously? Because, last I checked, the God depicted in the Bible killed more people than every single human dictator combined (in fact, the Christian God kills everyone on the planet at one point), and the Bible contains numerous passages like these:
"Take your son, your only son - yes, Isaac, whom you love so much - and go to the land of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will point out to you." (Genesis 22:1-18)
"Consecrate to me every first-born that opens the womb among Israelites, both man and beast, for it belongs to me." (Exodus 13:2)
"Note also that any one of his possessions which a man vows as doomed to the Lord, whether it is a human being or an animal, or a hereditary field, shall be neither sold nor ransomed; everything that is thus doomed becomes most sacred to the Lord. All human beings that are doomed lose the right to be redeemed; they must be put to death." (Leviticus 27:28-29)
"Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel." (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)
"You should not let a sorceress live." (Exodus 22:17 NAB)
"All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are guilty of a capital offense." (Leviticus 20:9 NLT)
"If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death." (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)
"A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death." (Leviticus 21:9 NAB)
"However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way." (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT)
...and that's not even scraping the surface. Also, the idea that morality and the concept of "the value of human life" begins with the Bible is laughable at best to any real !historychads. Abrahamic religion has done more to utterly DESTROY the concept of all lives having value than any other ideology ever has.
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Speaking of the fricking concept of destroying lives, what were fricking you thinking when you told the fricking FBI to create an IED with nails dipped in rat poison before planting it in a fricking crowd, b-word? Or that time you posted maps a fricking mass shooter later used to kill a fricking bunch of people and you bragged about it, b-word? !historychads !metashit
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Stop giving the attention whore what he wants, he probably jerks off to these discussions.
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I did leave him alone until he started being mean to @Spiderman and coming after associated !friendsofspiderman in the fricking aftermath. Plus it's not like I'm putting in effort, just highlighting some choice quotations from his lawyer.
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While what you're saying is pretty darning about @MoonMetropolis, that doesn't excuse all of the evil things @Spiderman does.
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Spiderman is a fricking hero. I'm sure his hands have been tied giving you those coins back temporarily by his efforts to fight crime.
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Never even asked for him to. Told him not to in fact. Wasn't even the entire amount, so it was a double "wtf is this r-slur doing?". And it sure as heck doesn't absolve him of all the evil he has done.
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Nobody's perfect, but please stop calling him evil.
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Blame @Patsy.
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And how do you even know about that? Seems to me you've been operating in conjunction with him behind the scenes. Very suspicious.
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I tried but he kept attacking me, also I gave him 3 chances. Also refused to to promise to stop being a terrorist.
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Don't worry, this guy is 100% going back to prison eventually, it might not even take a year for that.
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He did like 10 years for talking about stuff. I'm not saying that wasn't an appropriate sentence, but he did his time.
Given the statistics of rDrama users we probably shouldn't be throwing stones at people who've been in jail.
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He got off 7 years early.
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That's a really great legal argument. How about you come over here and argue it to me in a room with cement walls, a sink, a potty, and 6 hard-working Americans trying to get off fentanyl.
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I don't know but I agree.
Let me cut that leg off.
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Agree with the first part, but not sure I follow the second. How many rDrama users do you believe are excons?
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Only the ones cool enough to actually commit crimes.
The 1950s moral panic about JDs with knives is so fricking hilarious, especially considering the breakdown of society that happened just after. I was there when kids still got in fist fights in school. I got in about 3, which give me the reputation as the one psycho who you do not want to frick around with (which I was trying to cultivate in these fights).
The honors bestowed on me for this: Nobody ever fricked with me. Unfortunately no hot bitches. It was just that one weird little Russian kid treated me like a god. I guess this is considered important in their culture.
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He's been very rude to me (namelocks, posting blasphemy and porn on my wall) and I left him alone other than defending @Spiderman in one thread. I would bury the fricking hatchet if he stopped trying to troll me/us.
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That's not what happened, you fricking r-slur, and I've already written and spoken extensively about it. The fact that you keep having to resort to ad-hominem attacks based on falsehoods is just further testament to the fact that you can't debate and you know how weak your positions are. "Or that time you posted maps a mass shooter later used to kill a bunch of people and you bragged about it?" You really don't have any idea what you're even talking about, yet you think you're owning me when you're simply demonstrating that you have zero reading comprehension, attention span, or ability to have adult conversations. Shocking that a hypocritical, Bible-thumping, pearl-clutching sexpat in Patsy's circle of Groomercord groomers wouldn't be able to have an adult conversation.
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Sorry you were unable to be a good person, with or without religion.
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Yes, he was. I've already elaborated on Hitler's Christianity multiple times.
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On the one hand it's probably bait but the fact I believed it says more about MM than anything
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The fact that you should all be reading my highly creative and fun Let's Play of Darklands (1992) says a lot about Germany.
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Yes, Hitler was a Christian: https://inference-review.com/letter/hitlers-christianity
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Blah blah blah say you are sorry for what you did.
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So Jewish of the communists to target jews
Neighbor, just look up the league of militant atheists. You're denying genocide with this nonsense.
Atheism is nothing new, it's an antimoral tumor upon society by those who think they are above it like yourself.
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Last I checked, Stalin actually created the Autonomous Jewish Oblast to serve as a Jewish homeland before Israel existed. The League of Militant Atheists was, like the KGB and Stalin, simply a puppet of the Jews who ran the Soviet Union. In what possible way am I denying genocide?
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Ahh yes, the Jewish oblast that was a frozen wasteland with nothing of worth in it So Jewish to remove jews from high level positions and send them to gulag during the anti-cosmopolitan campaign.
You're denying genocide by being unable to accept that atheists committed the worst crimes of the 20th century lol, even outside the abrahamosphere, in China and Cambodia.
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Why would an "anti-Semitic" government give Jews any section of the country? And it isn't any more of a frozen wasteland than the rest of Russia.
The atrocities carried out by the communists in Asia wouldn't have happened if Jews hadn't created communism to begin with.
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Yes? The Jewish Question was not pro-jewish, the jews especially orthodox would have preferred to stay as leeches in the western society, the point of the several proposed jewish solutions was to force them out of european society, just happened that Stalin and Hitler were the only to act on it until Britain starting the decolonization process.
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Except that nobody in the USSR was forcing Jews to go there. In fact, very few Jews ever moved to the Autonomous Jewish Oblast and zero were forcibly relocated there. It was created to give Jews a homeland that they could voluntarily move to (but hardly any actually did), and it was created by communist Jews and their puppet Stalin.
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Yeah, that's right. Because they went to gulags instead lol, which isn't exactly better is it?
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Who went to gulags just for being Jewish?
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Are you anti or pro israel. You never said.
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@Aevann chud this man three days for attacking the holy people
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Hitler was a Godless Heathen who seeked to suppress the Catholic Church
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https://inference-review.com/letter/hitlers-christianity
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The evidence that @MoonMetropolis commits terror is overwhelming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Ryne_Goldberg
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So we jus gunna ignore shit like the Khmer Rouge or what?
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The Khmer Rouge wouldn't have existed if communism hadn't been started by Jews.
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So you hate jews?
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wait is this not a bit anymore?
are you actually just fricking r-slurred?
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Awesome retort, bro! You sure proved me wrong.
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Genesis 22:1-18
Exodus 13:2
Leviticus 27:28-29
Deuteronomy 17:12
Exodus 22:17
Leviticus 20:9
Leviticus 20:10
Leviticus 21:9
Leviticus 25:44-46
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