Family Sues NYC After Woman’s Body Mistakenly Sent To Medical School

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The city medical examiner’s office treated a Bronx grandmother like “garbage” when it mistakenly shipped off her corpse to a medical school, the woman’s family alleges in a new lawsuit.

As WCBS 880?s Alex Silverman reported, the family of Aura Ballesteros, who died last month after reportedly battling heart disease and dementia, is suing the city for $5 million.

Her son, Hector Ballesteros, made arrangements for the Office of Chief Medical Examiner to hold the former psychologist’s body until family could travel to New York from Colombia. Instead, it was sent to Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University “to be used for medical students,” the family’s lawyer, Sanford Rubenstein, said during a news conference Tuesday in Downtown Brooklyn.

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