Rotting bodies in garage land Philly undertaker in jail
A North Philadelphia funeral director arrested in 2015 after neighbors discovered three rotting corpses in her garage was sentenced Wednesday to three months in prison followed by 20 months of house arrest.
Protesting that "the whole story hasn't been told," Janet Powell-Dailey, 73, was sentenced by Common Pleas Court Judge Susan I. Schulman, who also barred her from ever again working for any mortuary business or service.
Assistant District Attorney Shuaib Newton said that Powell-Dailey's house arrest would be electronically monitored, and that when it ends she will begin five years' probation. Newton said Schulman also ordered Powell-Dailey to pay a total of $3,492 in restitution to two families for services - a headstone and cremation - that Powell-Dailey never delivered.
Newton said two relatives testified about the shock of learning that their dead relatives' bodies had been left decomposing in a garage.
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