Discovery causes renewed pain for family (Misdeeds by Calvary Cemetery, Brockton, Mass.)

[Ian David]

Discovery causes renewed pain for family

By Mike Underwood, Enterprise staff writer

BROCKTON — Francisco Cambronero pulled the plywood board from his son's grave and aimed a flashlight at the earth. What he saw sickened him — his young son's white marble casket. The casket he had buried eight months ago.

Cambronero rushed to Calvary Cemetery in Brockton that wet March night after a family friend told him 3-year-old Jaecen's grave had been dug up by workers who had squeezed another casket into a neighboring plot.

“No one from the cemetery told us. To see our son's casket dug up almost eight months after he died was traumatic. It is a disgrace and shows no respect to my son or my family,” the 34-year-old dad said Friday.

Cambronero and wife Jana, 28, believe their son's casket was partially exposed when cemetery workers dug a grave in a neighboring plot. The plots are so close together that the concrete casing for the neighboring casket is touching Jaecen's, they said.

More:
http://enterprise.southofboston.com/articles/2007/05/05/news/news/news01.txt


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New Allegations of Improper Burials and Grave Robbing by The Archdiocese of Boston
Topic started by IanDB1 on Mar-04-07 07:15 AM (0 replies)
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[DamnYank]

1. Common procedure

Cemetery lots are normally just wide enough for the vault, so having vaults touching side to side is common practice. If the exposed item was made of marble, then it's probably a vault and not a casket as stated in the article. Was the vault opened or damaged in any way? I knew a guy who worked one summer as a gravedigger while in college. He told me that it's sometimes necessary to jackhammer a corner off a vault in order to make the new, adjacent one fit into the space. If the vault wasn't damaged then it's probably a non-issue. Sad that the family had to see their son's grave exposed, though.