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According to police, the parent of a miss who had passed distant precocious went to Resurrection Cemetery successful Ancaster and discovered that her daughter's remains were missing.
The antheral was arrested connected Nov. 4 and faces six charges
Aura Carreño Rosas · CBC News
· Posted: Nov 06, 2025 1:40 PM EST | Last Updated: November 6
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A antheral has been arrested, constabulary say, aft the urn containing the remains of an babe miss was taken from a cemetery.
According to police, the parent of the girl, who had passed distant recently, went to Resurrection Cemetery astatine 254 Garner Rd. W. successful Ancaster connected Nov. 2 and recovered that her daughter's remains were gone.
Police said they reviewed CCTV footage from the cemetery and began an “extensive investigation.”
On Nov. 4, constabulary arrested and charged a 37-year-old antheral successful Niagara Falls, Ont. Police accidental the antheral had a “history of akin cemetery-theft offences.”
Officers were capable to retrieve the urn and instrumentality it to the mother. They besides recovered “several different items believed to person been taken from further gravesites.”
The 37-year-old is facing six charges, including indignity to quality remains, breaking and entering and possession of spot obtained by crime, constabulary said successful a quality merchandise connected Thursday.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Aura Carreño Rosas is simply a newsman astatine CBC Hamilton. She's primitively from Venezuela. She has extended acquisition successful covering stories astir immigrants and migrant workers arsenic good arsenic absorbing radical with divers journeys. You tin interaction her astatine [email protected]
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