NEW YORK (AP) — The family of a woman whose corpse mistakenly wound up at a medical school for research has received $115,000 from New York City.
The Daily News (http://nydn.us/1SDY1d7 ) says 85-year-old Aura Ballesteros died in May 2014 at a Bronx nursing home. She was to be stored at the morgue while her children made funeral arrangements.
Under state law, the medical examiner can send a corpse to Potter’s Field for burial or to a medical school for research if a corpse isn’t claimed for 14 days.
The News says Ballesteros had been embalmed by the time the family learned of the mistake.