Funeral home sued after sending grandmother's body to wrong country

Nine grieving children discovered that a New York funeral home had sent their mother's body to a family in Guatemala after chancing upon a of the horrified recipients.

Carmen Maldonado died two days after her 96th birthday in May, telling relatives she wanted to be buried next to her husband in Ecuador.

Her family thought her body was still at the Rivera Funeral Home in Queens when they saw a Guatemalan news report of a young widow wondering why an old woman was in a coffin supposed to be holding the body of her 38-year-old husband.

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