The City of Vero Beach is currently defending itself in nearly a dozen open civil lawsuits, but none as potentially troubling for top city officials as a complaint from the parents of an infant interred at Crestlawn Cemetery in 2007.
The parents, local criminal defense attorney Adam Chrzan and Tanya Crovo, allege that city crews damaged their deceased infant’s casket, breaking it open with heavy equipment during irrigation work on the city-owned cemetery. The suit refers to baby Alexander Chrzan, who was born July 4, 2007, and died on Aug. 12, 2007, as A.C.
The complaint alleges “When A.C.’s casket and remains were destroyed, employees and/or representatives and/or contracted workers and/or agents were operating in their capacity as cemetery groundskeepers and/or maintenance workers and/or persons authorized by Defendant to do work at Crestlawn Cemetery were instructed by the City Manager or someone in an official capacity with the City of Vero Beach to retrieve the remains, including but not limited to human bones, remains, casket material, and casket contents and place all the aforementioned into a new casket.”…