OAKLAND — A second set of parents sued multiple East Bay funeral homes this month over an alleged “mix-up” that left one child cremated against her parents’ wishes, while another family received the wrong child’s ashes.

Anjelita and Cesar Reyes filed the lawsuit Aug. 14 in Alameda County Superior Court, claiming the funeral homes bungled the cremation of their young daughter, Ayelli Havana Reyes. The problem appeared all the more galling, the lawsuit claimed, because at least one of the funeral home directors had previously been promoted after allegedly mismanaging another cremation.

In a statement announcing the lawsuit, an attorney for the parents blasted the funeral homes’ “subterfuge,” and the “catastrophic emotional harm” that followed.

“No parent should have to endure the shock

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