Two child victims of the MOVE bombing will finally have a resting place after the city returned their remains to their brother, the latest twist in a saga that began when the city infamously ordered the bombing of a home in 1985, killing 11 people inside.
housing members of the revolutionary, back-to-nature group in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood following a standoff and shootout with police. The bombing culminated with a city block going up in flames.the city medical examiner gave human remains from the bombing site to Penn Museum for identification, sparking protests and outrage.Former health commissioner Thomas Farley later revealed that he had ordered the remains, thought to be bone fragments, cremated in 2017.
. A subordinate of Farley's in 2017 decided not to follow the commissioner's orders and saved the remains, a lawyer involved with the Africa family said.The remains of sisters burned to death in the 1985 Philadelphia MOVE bombing have been collected by their brother, Lionell Dotson Sr., who plans to give them a final resting place outside Pennsylvania. NBC10’s Randy Gyllenhaal has the story.
Some of the remains were eventually returned to other members of the Africa family, but Dotson had to wait until Wednesday to receive the remains of his sisters, a development that he called “bittersweet.” The city declined to comment on the return of the remains, but Dotson said after stepping out of the medical examiner's office that the medical examiner came out of her own accord and gave him a"sincere" and"heartfelt" apology for the actions of her predecessors.
“I finally get to take them away from the city that helped kill them,” Dotson said about his sisters.
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