A Tampa mother said she discovered her personal property had been removed from her son's gravesite in Tampa.

Monica Woods buried her son, Joseph Woods, Jr., in March of 2023.

She laid him to rest at Rest Haven Memorial Park Cemetery in Tampa. This week, she said cemetery management removed her son's grave plate.

She discovered it near a dumpster along with other grave plates.

"I'm hurt. I don't know what to feel right now. The pain is back. It never goes away. I had a scab on it, it was trying to heal, but it's back off again so I'm starting from square one again...it looks terrible," said Woods.

Numerous families gathered at the cemetery on Tuesday, December 9. They expressed similar concerns over management removing the grave plates off their loved one's gravesite.

Woods said she w

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