June 30, 2025
Tabitha Worrell says that in a viewing in 2022, her son’s physique was “coated with and consumed by clumps of maggots,” throughout a viewing
Tabitha Worrell is suing a funeral residence in Virginia after the household went to her son’s viewing and witnessed the deceased’s physique “coated with and consumed by clumps of maggots.”
In accordance with KATV, Worrell’s son, Torreon Williams, died in a automobile accident in Could 2022, and after giving a down fee to Snelling Funeral Dwelling for the 24-year-old’s funeral, every week later, on the viewing, individuals who attended seen that the physique was infested with maggots.
Worrell is suing Snelling as a result of funeral residence’s failure to carry out funeral providers “in knowledgeable or sanitary method.” The household additionally skilled monetary loss as a result of the price of the funeral, they usually suffered “extreme emotional misery, heartache, psychological turmoil, and nervousness.”
She believes that the funeral residence didn’t retailer the physique in a sealed fridge and didn’t correctly put together the physique on the day of the viewing and funeral.
The lawsuit states, “As mourners approached the physique of Torreon Williams, these folks seen that Torreon Williams’ physique, significantly his face, nostril and mouth, was coated with and consumed by clumps of maggots.”
“The maggots had been on and in Torreon Williams’ physique for a major interval and had been purposely ignored on the day of Torreon Williams’ service as, along with the aforementioned, the maggots had burrowed into holes in his cheek and mouth that had not existed beforehand.”
Fox 2 Now reported that, based on the papers filed, the household has “misplaced” Tabitha Worrell, as she “experiences nightmares, trauma, sleeplessness, flashbacks, nervousness, melancholy, nausea, humiliation, embarrassment, grief and horror.”
Snelling, which Hollomon-Brown Funeral Houses owns, gave a written assertion to the media outlet from its CEO, Casey Jones.
“The surprising passing of Torreon Williams is tragic, and we prolong our honest condolences to his household. Nevertheless, as a result of the occasions following his demise are the topic of ongoing litigation, we don’t imagine it’s applicable to remark publicly at the moment.”
The trial will happen on the Chesapeake Circuit Courtroom’s civil division July 28.
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