A former New Jersey funeral home worker has been charged with dumping a broken casket containing human organs along a Philadelphia street, according to a report.

Jeremy Brooks, 24, who worked at Stanley's Memorial Chapel in Camden has been charged with abuse of corpse, a misdemeanor offense, Philly.com said.

Authorities said the organs belonged to a girl about 3 or 4 months old who had died in June, according to the report. They were removed during an autopsy and should have been buried with the girl.

Reportedly, the child's casket was found to be broken just prior to her funeral so a new one had to be secured. The child's body was placed in the new coffin, but, the report said, in their haste funeral home workers forgot to transfer the bag of organs.

Brooks had originally wanted to temporarily store the broken casket at his North Philadelphia home until he could dispose of it, but his sister wouldn't allow that, the report said.

Brooks then allegedly dumped the tiny white one along West Clearfield Street in Philadelphia. The casket was found on a sidewalk there near a cemetery by a passer-by who called police.

Philly.com said that Brooks no longer works at the funeral home.

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