NEW YORK: A woman whose husband of 21/2 years died in a scuffle with police had sperm extracted from the corpse in the hope of having his children.
Maribel Baez, 29, made the request while the body of her husband, Anthony, lay in the morgue, undergoing an autopsy.
'It was seeing my brother on the table that hurt so much,' Anthony Baez's sister, Elizabeth Baez, said on Thursday. 'That's when Maribel said, 'I want his baby. I want it now.' ' Anthony Baez, 29, a part-time security guard from Orlando, Florida, died on December 22 during a visit to New York to see relatives.
He was arrested for disorderly conduct after a football he and his two brothers were tossing around in his native Bronx hit two police cars in the middle of the night.
Susan Karten, a lawyer for the family, said an officer restrained him with a chokehold banned by the Police Department in 1993.
The medical examiner said the cause of death was asphyxiation 'due to compression of the neck and chest' and asthma.