"They wanted to do what's right for their son, and they wanted to have a dignified farewell for him."
"At that point, they had no idea that it was their son's brain that was in the washing machine,"
"They didn't know if it was mixed up with somebody else's brain, whether it was their son's, they had not a single idea."
Alexander Pinon, 27, died on May 19. His family paid Lima Family Erickson Memorial Chapel more than $10,000 for a full-service memorial package and provided clothing for burial. The family asked for the clothing the decedent had been wearing at the time of death to be returned. A funeral director employee handed the father a bag that was placed directly into the laundry, where brain material tumbled into the washing machine. The father removed the material, returned it to the funeral home, and the funeral home took the bag back without disclosing whether the remains belonged to the son. A lawsuit was filed on the family's behalf.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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