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Family mourns daughter for 2nd time after identity mix-up |
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Written by DeadGirl
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Saturday, 06 August 2005 |
Fri, 05 Aug 2005
For the second time in less than a week, an Alberta family is mourning the loss of a 17-year-old daughter and planning her funeral following a bizarre case of mistaken identity.
Misty Medicine Crane and Chantal Many Grey Horses, from the Blood First Nation about 200 kilometres south of Calgary, were passengers in a vehicle that crashed on the reserve on July 31.
The faces of both teenagers were badly damaged, making identification difficult. One was pronounced dead at the scene, while the other was rushed to Alberta's Children's Hospital in Calgary and remained there in a coma.
The Medicine Crane family was told Sunday that Misty had been the girl killed in the car accident. An obituary had been published and funeral arrangements had been made.
Then the family learned Wednesday that Misty had been misidentified and was alive and in the Calgary hospital, in a coma.
They had barely begun to process the good news when Misty died in hospital Friday afternoon.
Meanwhile, the family of Many Grey Horses was trying to deal with the news that they had sat for days beside the hospital bedside of a teenager that wasn't in fact their daughter.
'I had no idea that wasn't her'
It's unclear how the identity mix-up happened.
The Blood Tribe Police Service told the families that the two girls, who were in the same car, had been identified by other teens involved in the accident.
No one from Medicine Crane's family was allowed to see the first girl's body after the accident. They were told it would be too disturbing for them and that police already had a positive identification.
Warren Many Grey Horses, Chantal's father, was demanding to know how the mistake was made.
"Look at the amount of people they affected," Many Grey Horses said. "Look what they did to these two beautiful girls. They took away their identities. And they tortured four families."
The girls apparently looked similar, both had pierced tongues, and were badly disfigured and swollen from the accident.
"I looked at her and I could see my girl, you know? I had no idea that wasn't her," Many Grey Horses said.
Jewelry mixup revealed the error
At the funeral home, Judy Medicine Crane was given her daughter's jewelry, but she didn't recognize it. The pieces included a nose ring, but her daughter didn't have a piercing there.
The family called the funeral home and asked whether the girl had a tattoo, she didn't, and the Medicine Cranes realized the mistake.
"Why can't these people do a proper identification of the body?" said James Medicine Crane, Misty's uncle. "None of this would have happened if they had of just called one of us."
The family wants the RCMP to investigate the misidentification.
There will be a funeral for Many Grey Horses on Monday, the day before she would have turned 16.
The 17-year-old driver of the car has been charged with impaired driving causing death.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/08/05/mixup-050805.html
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