YWN reported on Monday that the body of a newborn infant was found in a pail near Jerusalem’s Har Menuchos Cemetery. It now appears the body was that of a stillborn infant who came into the world ten years ago. The parents assumed the hospital would bury their child but the hospital actually decided to preserve the corpse for research, without obtaining permission from the family.
Yossi Abulafia, who owns a tombstone company near the cemetery, arrived on Monday morning. Together with employees, they approached a fresh grave to pour cement in preparation for placing a gravestone. They saw a pail which looked like it was from paint, and upon closer inspection saw the infant’s body. The corpse was transferred to the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute for an autopsy.
The bucket had a sticker from Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, as well as the name of the mother and her identification number. The parents were located and they were horrified police report when they realized their infant never had a proper burial.
Police have turned the investigation over to the Health Ministry. Hospital officials report they do not understand, insisting that body parts are handed to the Chevra Kadisha for burial. Chevra Kadisha officials were not available for comment.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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The Zionists in the State of Israel haven’t changed much since 1948 and those kidnapped Yemenite children and other horror stories.
Quite bizarre…Ten years ago??
~Steinway
To #4, the proper procedure in such a case, is that the parents are NOT informed upon the burial location of the child. If anyone would go to the burial site of a stillborn child it would appear that they’re davening for the neshama to have an aliyah. But the neshama of a stillborn is beyond perfect, that there’s nowhere higher for it to go. It doesn’t need an aliyah.
#3–What #4 said. When my friend gave birth in her 6th month and lost the baby 2 days later, she and her husband were told that the Chevra Kadisha would take care of the burial and that they wouldn’t be told where the kever is. At least in EY, this is how it’s done.
#6–Of course a stillborn has a neshama. As does a baby that’s miscarried in early stages of pregnancy.