BROWNSTOWN TOWNSHIP, Mich. – What started as an emotional send off for a baby after suffocating when he was left alone in an Allen Park motel has turned into a crime scene after someone dug up the grave.
Mario Al-Asadi was born premature and was six months old when he died Jan. 15, 2013. His parents, Terri Othwaite-Julite and Saad Al-Asadi, were charged after prosecutors said they left him without adult supervision in a crib that had medical equipment and blankets in it.
Charges against Saad Al-Sadi were dropped, but Othwaite-Julite pleaed guitly to involuntary manslaughter and child abuse.
Mario's body went unclaimed in the morgue for three years until community members came together to give him a funeral. Mortuary students buried Mario on March 23 at the Our Lady of Hope Cemetery in Brownstown Township.
But just hours later, in the dark of the night, someone dug up Mario's casket. Police said whoever dug up the casket was probably looking for valuables and tried to open the casket, but was unsuccessful and left it next to the empty grave.
Police said Mario's parents are not suspects in the crime.
