New York Woman ‘Sucked into Parents’ Grave’ Suing Cemetery

Joanne Cullen was visiting the final resting place of her parents in Long Island found herself falling into a sudden sinkhole at the cemetery. her lawyer, Joseph Perrini, says that the fall caused her to pitch forward and hit her face on a tombstone and cracked a tooth. The stunned woman says she sunk into the grave down to her hips, and her cries for help went unanswered.

The scene occurred on December 29, 2016. “Getting sucked into your parents’ grave when you go to visit them on a cool December afternoon with the sun going down … it’s terrifying and traumatizing,” the lawyer said. Now the North Bellmore woman is seeking $5 million from the St. Charles Resurrection Cemetery administrators’ from the trauma of the event.

She claims that she is terrified to visit her parent’s grave again, suffers from headaches and nightmares, and now fears walking in open fields. Perrini contends that gravediggers who backfilled an adjacent grave to Cullen’s parents left an underground void that caused Cullen to descend into the ground.

See New York Woman ‘Sucked into Parents’ Grave’ Suing Cemetery, Fox News, March 17, 2019.