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Family sues Brooklyn funeral home claiming a MAGGOT crawled out of 37-year-old daughter’s eye after her body was improperly preserved ‘for weeks’
- WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT
- Regina Christophe, 42, died of natural causes in her sleep on June 24
- McManus Funeral Home in Brooklyn didn’t collect her body from the medical examiner until June 28
- Her funeral service was on July 9 and in the 10 days beforehand, she decomposed
- By the time the service took place, her mother says her face had ‘melted’
- She claims a maggot even crawled out of her eye while she was in her casket
- The family is now suing McManus Funeral Home for improperly preserving her corpse
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A family is suing a Brooklyn funeral home for improperly preserving the body of their daughter who was so poorly cared for that a maggot came crawling out of one of her eyes.
Regina Christophe, 42, died of natural causes on June 24.
Her body wasn’t collected from the Medical Examiner by undertakers from the McManus Funeral Home until June 28, and her funeral was not held until July 9.
The delay was to allow relatives from Florida to travel to New York City to attend.
Regina Christophe, 42, died of natural causes on June 24. Her body wasn’t collected from the Medical Examiner by undertakers from the McManus Funeral Home home until June 28, and her funeral was not held until July 9
By the time Regina came to be buried on July 9, her family says her face had ‘melted’. Above, the dirty clothes she was placed in can be shown. DailyMail.com has chosen not to show the woman’s face
But by the time the service took place, her body had decomposed so badly that her mother says her face had ‘melted’ and a maggot crawled out of one of her eyes.
Regina’s mother, Chantel Jean, says her daughter looked like a ‘monster’ by the time she died
The family is now suing McManus Funeral Home, claiming its staff failed to perform the services they were paid for when they were hired.
In an interview with News 12, Regina’s mother Chantel said her daughter looked like a ‘monster’ when it came time to bury her.
‘Her face looked like it was caved in. Actually, looks like it was burned as fake skin was like melting off her face, one eye maggot came out of her eye.
‘The last image I saw was a monster in the casket.
‘An animal deserves a better funeral than what my daughter received,’ she added.
She alleges that the first time she tried to see her daughter, the funeral home told her she couldn’t because they had not dressed her.
The next time she tried, Jean claims the home told her no because she hadn’t been embalmed.
McManus Funeral Home in Brooklyn, New York, said it did ‘the best they could’ to preserve the woman’s corpse
She says she didn’t see her daughter until the day of the funeral service.
Graphic photos shared by the family show her stained shirt and poorly maintained face.
The owner of McManus Funeral Home told News 12 that he believed his staff gave the family ample ‘warning’ of how she would look.
‘I thought I gave them fair warning…we did the best we could,’ he said.
Family attorney Kurt Robertson said the family deserved better.
‘Without question there should be an investigation. I have never see anything like this.’