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On top of Philly news MOVE members mourn their children’s lives as Penn Museum apologizes for storing remains
University administrators now say they want to “reunite” the remains with their family but it’s still unclear where they are.
Consuela Africa (right) breaks down talking about the bombing of their family and the withholding of their children’s remains, next to Pam Africa (center), and Janine Africa (right) Kimberly Paynter / WHYY Love Philly? Sign up for the free Billy Penn newsletter to get everything you need to know about Philadelphia, every day.
MOVE members gathered on Monday across from Malcolm X Park to address reports the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University have been in possession of remains thought to belong to children killed in the 1985 police bombing of the MOVE’s West Philadelphia compound.
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Billy Penn published a story saying that human remains from the bombing, believed to be those of two children, sat in a cardboard box on a shelf at Penn’s Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology for years. Originally, they’d been entrusted to a Penn anthropologist, Alan Mann, so that he could verify their identities. Yet decades later, apparently because Mann was unable to conclusively identify them, they had had not been returned to family members.
Mann took a job at Princeton in 2001 and brought the remains with him. Janet Monge, Mann’s former student, reportedly reanalyzed the bones from 2016 to 2019 during her time as curator of the Penn Museum’s physical anthropology section. She also reportedly used them to teach an online course on forensic anthropology. But by 2019, Mann had retired and Monge left Penn, making the remains’ exact whereabouts a mystery.
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