Bereaved Consumers Protection Act-Details next week-YourFuneralGuy

There is legislation in Congress on funeral and cemetery reform

Detail of the proposed  legislation reforming cemeteries and funerals will not be available till next week. The United States Congress will put the legislation in print and on the internet by then.

At the time of this blog post the Bill  proposed in the US  House was not available. There is more on the Bereaved Consumers Protection Act here.

Congressman Bobby Rush has stated that the legislation contains both a Cemetery and FUNERAL BILL OF RIGHTS©

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Burr Oak Cemetery No Longer a Crime Scene-YourFuneralGuy

The latest news in the Burr Oak Cemetery Scandal is that it is no longer a crime scene. This is according to the Cook County Sheriff”s website. The cemetery has been turned over to the Court Receiver. “BURR OAK CEMETERY WILL NOT BE REOPENED AT THIS TIME”

There is enough evidence gathered for prosecution. The Sheriff sees no need to excavate the cemetery for months or years.

As mentioned in the previous post the recovered bones will not undergo DNA testing. The investigation will continue off site.

From the Press Page at the Cook County Sheriffs Website.

“The turning over of day-to-day operations to the receiver is a step towards allowing the cemetery to conduct normal business,” Dart said.  “I want to thank the public for their patience during the time we were forced to close the cemetery to process the crime scenes and ask for their continued patience while Mr. Szabelski continues to work towards re-opening Burr Oak.  I hope that everything that has been done will help ease the pain of those with loved ones buried here and allow them to finally have some closure in this matter.”

Community Members have come together to form the Chicago Burr Oak  Cemetery Historical Society. They are working together to find a fan appropriate memorial for the bones unearthed at Burr Oak Cemetery.

Burr Oak Cemetery Scandal|For some no answers-

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Burr Oak cemetery pic from Dallas News.

Ex-IFDA President-Illinois Funeral Directors Burr Oak Victims-YourFuneralGuy

Charles Childs ia an ex-IFDA President involved in the IFDA Preneed Trust Ponzi Scheme

Ex-IFDA President Charles Childs spoke to Governor Quinn’s Task Force yesterday.  He stated that funeral directors in Illinois are victims of the Burr oak cemetery. Complaining that they he has to spend extra time and resources to help his clients is not becoming, if not unprofessional for a Funeral Director.  Plus, the State has requested records.

In fact Child’s and other Funeral Directors have been served with an “Order Compelling Production of Books and Records.” from the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. All contact with Burr oak cemetery must be reported from 2004 t0 2009.

Snippet from the Chicago Tribune:

“To this date, that’s basically all we’ve been doing is trying to find records for families who are unfortunate victims in this,” Childs said. “We ourselves are victims.”

Charles Childs Jr of A.A. Rayner & Sons Modern Funeral Service transferred 2 million $$ out of the IFDA Preneed Trust Fund to Management.

Charles Childs  Jr,is a defendant in multiple lawsuits in the Illinois Funeral Directors Preneed Ponzi Scheme. There is also a federal criminal investigation into him and other Ex-IFDA Presidents. How can his testimony be credible  before the Cemetery Oversight Task Force?

“Under Child’s watch 2 million dollars was transferred from the IFDA Preneed Trust to IFDA Services  for management fees according to the State Journal Register newspaper in Springfield, Illinois.” $250,000.oo was also transfered to the Museum under his watch from 2006 to 2007. From the SJR: Article:

“According to an IFDA-commissioned audit, the foundation that ran the museum received at least $250,000 annually in 2006 and 2007 from the association, which got more than $2 million each of those years from management fees generated by the trust fund.”

Charles Childs was president of the IFDA from  2006 to 2007.
The grief and hurt caused by the Burr oak cemetery scandal is beyond comprehension. This is a horrific tragedy.

Ex- IFDA President Charles Childs Jr, defends loans out of trust fund.

Charles Childs Jr Illinois Funeral Regulator at heart of IFDA Ponzi Scheme

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Burr Oak Cemetery Scandal:Could Humans do this?-yourfuneralguy

Chicago Area is the site of the Burr Oak Cemetery Scandal

Here is the latest in  the Burr Oak Cemetery Scandal coming out of the Chicago Area. It is reported that the pile of bones may have the remains of up to 300 humans.

300 Loved ones.

300 Families.

In some ways it is like scenes from the  gas chambers of Nazi Germany. It raises the question. COULD HUMAN BEINGS HAVE DONE THIS?

Jesse Jackson said that those responsible deserve a a special place in hell.

OCCUPATIONS

From the Dallas News.

“The former cemetery manager, a foreman, a dump-truck operator and back-hoe operator have been each charged with one count of dismembering a human body.”

NAMES

The Folks allegedly responsible were named in the press both the Chicago Sun Times and the Chicago Examiner

PICTURES

The Chicago Tribune posted the pictures of those arrested for body dismemberment

Still they are innocent till proven guilty.

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Burr Oak Cemetery is located in Alsip, outside Chicago in the State of Illinois.

Forensic experts face the difficult task of going through a pile of bones and putting human bodies back together.

This is posted in correction to a  previous post that had the wrong name of the cemetery.-apologies

Burr Oak Cemetery Desecreation|Who’s Watching the Graves?-yourfuneralguy

Who is watching the cemetery?

In Illinois essentially there is no one watching the Cemetery except the cemetery.

The problem with burials at the cemetery is that regulation does not exist beyond a funeral director being present at the grave covering after the person is buried, on the day of the funeral. This is simply to insure that the right person is in the right grave.If you were to hang around after a funeral service, you can watch this.

Essentially after that no one is watching graves and cemeteries  but the families of the dead folks . This was the case at the cemetery in the news near Chicago.  Only The cemetery folks watched the graves. At the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, IL, they were watching and desecrating.the graves at the same time.

The solution to this type of this problem is to GET IN THE CAR AND DRIVE OUT, TO THE CEMETERY. The Chicago Tribune selected this solution. More regulation by the government in regards to cemeteries will help.. The best thing to do though is to go their and see what is going on.

Regulation of Burial Funds is the Focus of Illinois Law.

In Illinois regulation is in regards to the burial funds is front and center. Rightly so, In 2008 the Illinois Funeral Directors Association mishandled, misappropriated or stole 59 Million Dollars of preneed funeral and burial funds. In 2009 those losses ballooned to nearly 100 Million in the largest monetary funeral insurance scandal in the history of the State.

The Comptroller of the State of Illinois found that burial fund records at Burr Ridge were in Order.

Whoever pulled this off corrected the record to make it look like everything was OK.

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Desecrating bodies in Illinois Alsip Cemetery|Preneed and Greed-yourfuneralguy

Sadly Illinois Burial Scandal where up to 300 bodies desecrated.

Discarding  and desecrating bodies and collecting money by reusing graves-This happened at the Burr Oak Cemetery in  the Chicago Area- Alsip, IL. Two words made this happen Preneed and Greed.Reports state that up to 300 bodies have been desecrated.

In the last post entitled Burr Ridge Cemetery Scandal| Could humans have done this?-YourFuneralguy.

One realizes that humans did do this and that their main motivation was greed. The way they pulled it off was through at need and preneed cemetery sales.

There are not tough enough laws in  Illlinois for the selling of  cemetery sites in the State of Illinois. Most sites are sold on a preneed basis. This means that people buy cemetery property before their funeral. Many times a preened insurance policy is used.

Snippet  from the Chicago Tribune:

“Illinois Rep. Dan Brady (R-Bloomington) said today the Alsip cemetery scandal illustrates why the state needs stricter regulations over individuals who sell “the pre-need burial spaces in the state.”

Funeral and Cemetery Preneed  Policies have been a probem in the State of Illinois as mentioned often in this blog. In fact the loss of the two largest  Funeral Corporations in the United States. Service Corporation International and Stewart Enterprises  have had horrible loses in Cemetery Sales.

Those in the Cemetery business are hurting. The people  involved here have taken it upon themselves to hurt others by desecrating graves. This a sad burial scandal.

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