Alberta mother pleads for return of baby son’s stolen ashes

A truck and trailer stolen Thursday night from an Edmonton parking lot contained the ashes of a young boy, now the young boy’s mother is hoping for a change of heart from the thief.

“I’m feeling really hopeless,” Emileigh Martel told Global News. “I would do anything to get them back.”

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Martel said her former fiancé’s 1993 White GMC truck with a gooseneck flat deck trailer hooked on the back, was taken at Yellowhead Trail and 149th street. Inside there was a small beige urn that contained the ashes of her baby boy, Damian, who died a week after he was born in June of 2015.

“It was hard enough losing him,” she said. “I’m completely devastated.”

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Martel said the beige box was between four and five inches tall.  A heart is etched on the side with the words ‘Forever in our Hearts’.