GETHSEMANE CEMETERY

DETROIT – A 10-month-old baby was sitting in front of her great grandmother’s headstone for a photo on Mother’s Day at a Detroit cemetery. When the stone was lifted off her, Melani McFadden had a “huge knot” and was bleeding from the back of her head, her mother Jessica McFadden told FOX 2 Detroit. She was taken to a local children’s hospital where she was diagnosed with a fractured skull. In a statement, the city said that headstones are placed by third-party contractors hired by families. Further, the cemetery operator had no record of concerns about the headstone, and it had not previously fallen and been reset, the report said.

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“They didn’t have my permission. You should have asked me. You should have made me informed,” Sanders said. “I don’t appreciate it and I’m very angry.”

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Tuesday was the second day Detroit police and the FBI spent digging up graves in the search for answers.

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More families are coming forward, demanding answers about the location of their loved ones buried at the Gethsemane Cemetery.

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A Detroit family was shocked when they discovered their loved one’s gravesite had several bodies inside.