Funeral director Amie Upton ‘robbed our daughter of her dignity’
A couple who find the body of a baby daughter lying on the sofa in a funeral director’s house, says that her child was “robbed from her dignity”.
Cody and Liam Townend’s daughter Macie-Mae was born dead in a Leeds hospital in January and appointed couple Amie Upton to supervise her funeral.
At the beginning of this week, a BBC investigation reported that Mrs. Upton was prohibited from entering any of the Mortuary and Motherhood wards of Leeds Training Hospital Trust to keep the bodies of babies at home.
Mrs. Upton said that Baby loss support and funeral service Florrie had received two complaints that Florrie was running the Army in eight years.
Speaking with BBC Newsnight, the couple said that Mrs. Upton had discovered that their daughters were holding the body of their daughters at home and that they were six miles away from the funeral hall, which they believe to be cared for.
Mr and Mrs. Townend said that they found Macie-Mae’s body on a sofa in MS Upton’s house, and they wrapped it in a blanket 10 days after seeing it last.
Ms. Townend, “I was damaged. I didn’t know what to say, I didn’t know what to think.
“It was terrible. I felt like a mother, as if we weren’t the parents of that baby. He took over everything.
“Honor is what Macie-Mae was robbed. He had no dignity.”
Mr. Townend added that the couple wanted to get their babies out of the house as quickly as possible and that Ms. Upton’s behavior is not “normal”.
He said: “The baby should have been in the rest chapel and it wasn’t, so ‘What’s going on here?’
Western Yorkshire police said Florrie was investigating her army, but did not define any potential crime after “comprehensive investigations”.
Ms. Upton said that she had previously filed two complaints about the service in BBC in eight years.
Talking to The Daily Mirror on ThursdayHe said that the babies in care were “love nothing but love” and that the bodies held at home are never alone.
Mr. Townend, who visited the grave of their daughters every day, called for more arrangement of the funeral industry.
The couple has been trying to have a baby for four years before the design of Macie-MAE.
“Opening your own burger minibus is more difficult than opening your own funeral home.
“It needs to change. [regulations] We were already on the ground, we wouldn’t have to pass. “
Mr. Townend added: “If there is no arrangement around the funeral directors, at least how will you be safe when you die?
“When you are in that stage and passing, you still need a sense of security. You still have human rights.”
At the beginning of this week, the deputy of the town Mark Sewards said he was pressing for new forces to organize the industry. And to ensure that any suggestions are applied, he said “the government would hold its feet to the flames”.
The government said that the affected mourning families “rightly expect to be treated with honor and respect for their children” and think of all options to improve standards in the funeral industry “.
