Horror as woman sucked into collapsing grave smashes face on parents’ headstone
A woman is suing a New York cemetery after she was "sucked" hip-deep into her parents’ grave – leaving her an "emotional wreck", a lawsuit claims.
Joanne Cullen was bent down at the headstone when a sinkhole appeared and began to swallow her up – causing her to fall and smash her head on the grave, breaking a tooth.
She grabbed the side of the tombstone in a desperate bid to pull herself out, according to lawyer Joseph Perrini.
The horrified woman cried out for help – but no one at the Long Island cemetery could hear her, New York Post reports.
Mr Perrini told the post: "Getting sucked into your parents’ grave when you go to visit them on a cool December afternoon with the sun going down…it’s terrifying and traumatising."
The St Charles Resurrection Cemetery has now been hit with a $5 million lawsuit in Queens Supreme Court following the terrifying incident.
Joanne, 64, says the ordeal left her an "emotional wreck", adding she is now scared of walking in open fields, has nightmares as well as headaches.
Perrini argues that gravediggers left an "underground void" that caused a sinkhole to form – which sucked Joanne into the ground.
He added: "It’s outrageous that this should happen to anybody. We want to make sure the cemetery and employees learn from this. We want to make sure this doesn’t happen to anyone else."
Joanne is suing St. John’s Cemetery Corp, an arm of the Catholic Church’s Brooklyn Diocese which manages the cemetery.
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