They believed that they were keeping a wake and cremating their father but it was another person: they will collect compensation

As in Waiting for the Carroza, without satire involved, a family from Mendoza

The mistake was made by the Forensic Medical Service.

The daughters of the deceased never came to recognize the body that was inside the drawer, at the suggestion of the burial company.

The situation became more serious as the days passed.

Once the error was detected, it was impossible for the real family of the veiled person to say goodbye, because

The daughters of the deceased man, identified with the initials RP and 69 years old, were the plaintiffs against the Forensic Medical Corps, the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Government of Mendoza as responsible for the error.

"The man

, because their mother had abandoned them when they were little. They had a very close relationship," according to the court file.

The 69-year-old man died in an accident on the street on September 30, 2019. That day he left his home in the town of Villa Nueva,

He had gone looking for work and never returned.

His daughters reported the disappearance to the Prosecutor's Office on duty.

Two days later, on October 2, the man was found dead in a field, in a neighboring town, in Buena Nueva.

There were no witnesses to his death.

in a search in the vicinity of his house that the family was carrying out.

For the Scientific Police, there was no evident evidence that he had suffered physical violence.

The Homicide Prosecutor, Claudia Ríos, advanced with the investigation and ordered an autopsy in the Forensic Medical Corps.

Forensic studies showed that the man

Ruled out a homicide, the prosecutor ordered the body to be delivered to the daughters.

And, since they did not have money to cover the burial expenses, they asked for a subsidy and

The judge admits the moral damage for the error, although not the amount of compensation claimed by the daughters.

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The way of acting of the funeral home aggravated the confusion.

"In the Boschin garage they did not let us see our father's body or dress him because they said he was

and in a stage of decomposition," the daughters recalled.

On the recommendation of the garage, his father's body was

during the afternoon, from 3:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., on October 3, 2023.

A day later, one of the daughters received the call from the Forensic Service administration of the Public Prosecutor's Office.

They apologized for the confusion and told them that they had to re-examine

In addition, they offered to cover the expenses of the new burial.

After recognizing the body and not wanting to go through a new wake, the daughters decided to accompany the truck that transferred the real body of their father to the cremation site.

A few days after a dramatic situation, the daughters

.

They accused the Government of Mendoza and the forensic responsible for damages and prejudices.

Judge María Luz Coussirat, of the Fourth Associate Management Court, considered that there was an error in the State's actions but understood that it did not cause pain of the magnitude as the sisters refer.

"The real pain was generated by the death of his father and the state of anxiety they experienced while he was found missing," argues the sentence.

The judge admits the moral damage for the error, although not the amount of compensation claimed by the daughters.

And to determine the value in pesos of that compensation, she calculated the value of "a trip for six or seven days, with passage and full stay, to the Iguazú Falls." 

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