A New Jersey woman intends to sue University Hospital in Newark and two police departments for $100 million after learning that her 28-year-old son died more than a year ago and nobody informed her.
Omaira Merced, 53, of Irvington, has filed a notice of tort claim against the hospital, along with the Irvington and Newark Police Departments, alleging they failed to notify her that her son had died and that he was buried in an unmarked grave.
“My son, Joel Ortiz, has been missing since September 2024. He left our home saying he was going to meet a friend at Newark Penn Station and said he would be back — but he never returned,” Merced wrote in a Facebook post in August…