Bronx Policeman Helps Family Bury Their Child
A Bronx policeman rallied a neighborhood to help a family lay a two-year-old son to rest.
Police say Officer Dimas Cortez aided the family of Josian Garcia Camacho, who died last Tuesday in Mott Haven after sticking a key in an electrical outlet.
Police say when Cortez asked what he could do for the family, they handed him a funeral estimate of $4,700, which they could not afford.
Cortez then got the La Paz Funeral home to provide a free coffin and funeral services.
Cortez said he had to step up and help the family however he could.
“It’s our next door neighbor,” said Cortez. “If you look right behind me, the first house that’s connected to the precinct is the house that the child lived in. So we kind of took it a little more personal than that as our neighbor. Not only a child, but as our neighbor.”
Cortez also got fellow officers and firefighters to chip in $2,500 so Camacho could be buried in Mexico, where the family is originally from.
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