Shawnte Hardin sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison for operating unlicensed funeral home business 

I agree with you! The punishment doesn't fit the crime. You would think this man killed the ppl. Shut his business down yes !!! But 12 years for mishandling dead bodies ? ??? What in the world is going on in our justice system ??? My Lord !!!

Thank you. Sentencing makes no sense at this point. And although he deserves time maybe it would be better for him to pay the families, than waste taxpayer money housing him. We need to deal with pedos and violent abusers. He should probably do SOME time but community service would be more useful.

I agree. I just watched a news clip of a 6 yr old little girl escaping from a kidnapper. Kid was taking the trash out, right out her front door and he literally just grabbed her arm and kept walking. The girl screamed and fought back and he let go. It was all captured on their ring camera. The father tracked him down in his car and called the cops. Although he was arrested, I believe the father should have simply ran him over and did society a favor. Now the POS will probably bail out or get a slap on the wrist and he'll try to kidnap again.

@@gunnymcgunwall6671 Umm.... then the father would have been found guilty of homicide and done 40 years..... you go run him over if you want to be a hero?

They acting like he killed there family I'm done

Proof?

@@JohnWickkkk proof ?? The proof is in the families statements.

Thank you for this breakdown because I didn’t understand. This is so sad.

@@whitlock1988 like pictures; etc?

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🤣😭 took the words from me 😭 ngga had his feet planted in the middle of the flo Like a big az oak tree

You a fool 😂

Was planted in the middle of the court room fLo Lke a biG az oak tree

Yo chill 😂😂

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Stfu he was helping people

You guys probably pushed him out because he was offering affordable funerals you guys just take advantage of people in their time of need

​@@dillan1875no, he wasn't

@@bradmagnuson6963 yes he was dummy people who couldn’t afford funerals I know his family many people was just upset he didn’t store body’s right

@@dillan1875 he wasn't even a licensed funeral director, and had no business running an unlicensed funeral home. He didn't handle anything right, including bodies stored in the funeral home, without being embalmed. He deserves the prison time

But he wount stay in prison if Ohio gets all democrat legislature lol

What do you think an autopsy doc does to a body!!? Mishandle, violate it, some even curse at it. ...

What makes a liscensed funeral home any better? Cremation seems harsh and evil to me.

I hope they don't dwell on it. The fault is his alone. I hope remember their loved ones as they were.

@@RossyHebrank SHUT UP & stop making it POLITICAL, clown🤡

Shut up

What did he do wrong I'm confused?

I was trying to stay strong 💪🏿. But it got me too !! 😢 😭 😿

@@tonysnow5461 Same here, all of this noise and time and all I see is he operated the funeral home without a license.

You didn't cry stop lying lol. Personally I've never cried for anything other than the passing away of a close family member(I cry about it almost once every day for the past year). Not even selling my dog that I owned for a year and got close with, I did not shed a tear, although I was very sad.

Yes and no. It's their job to prosecute, defend and or advise. If they meet their client at a low point, it is what it is.

Yep. Happened to me. Lawyers are low down😢

I know 😢I felt that too to my soul 😢😢😢

Just goes to show how much hate they have for the guy, but your right 45 years is overkill for that offense and I doubt that they'll get their way.

Good 45

Bottom line he’s a black business owner. He’s being over punished

@@blackway643 and how much you want to bet if he was white, those family members wouldn't have been carrying on like that and he dang sure wouldn't be doing no more than a year if that behind bars. 12 years for that is insane. I'm so sick of this country.

@@brandon1831204 All facts

no one needs to see that

@@alexrekzu4079 people see that all the time - police , forensics, morticians, pi 🕵🏻, coroners

Lmao

@@giacobowahlboghter5586 .....I did a Google search and learned all about it............I have no idea why this broadcast didn't elaborate. Maybe time constraints.......He pretended to be a low cost funeral provider and basically stored the b*dies in an abandoned Church........How he got the title 'senior pastor', I don't know. He probably applied online for some sort of bogus 'ordained minister' certificate and worked a con on unsuspecting souls.

@@twilit oh so like 1-2% of the public, lol

Dang, that's foul...

Absolutely despicable!

And yet people are running their mouth saying the most outrageous things in the comments. Thank you for telling what it meant for the families here, because some people are so cluesless.

Especially wicked when you have no respect for the dead

Lord have mercy Lord have mercy I was searching what he did exactly... wow

Justice served

She threatened to punch him! How is that a right? She should be in jail

Outburst in court are completely illegal she should be in jail.

@@mahfugga fool it’s a victim impact statement. The intelligent judge knows it’s a high emotional moment. She needed to speak her mind.

@@mahfugga outbursts in court are not illegal. I graduated from Massachusetts School of Law...where did you get your law degree? This is an opportunity for the victim's voice. It is at the discretion of the court to allow or not allow these opportunities for redress.

Just lost my grandma today😞 & i agree, this was very hard to watch

@@badgalkia10 I am truly so very sorry for your loss. 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏

Why they screaming at him like he killed their family? Besides not having a business license, what did he do wrong?

She lost my empathy with that ridiculously out of control screaming and hollering. Can't even imagine what she's like in the privacy of her own home. Absolutely zero self control or even any EFFORT at maintaining her composure. Judge should've had her removed from the courtroom IMO.

@@eliasreyes5332 “Besides not having a business license, What did he do wrong” 🤓🤓🤓

My heart goes out to you! I'm so sorry for your loss 😔

@@briattnybrittany6843 thank you!

🙏🏾🙏🏾❤️🕊️

Me too, my dog. My mother passed in 2019 unexpectedly. I was allowed to watch her cremation and the funeral home that took care of her was phenomenal. Sorry for your loss. Stay strong. Holler at me if you ever need to talk 💪🏽

@@KingGogh thanks i appreciate it, and im sorry for you're loss as well. Not a day goes by where i dont miss her but im ok cause i know shes in a better place living her best life. Stay strong my brother peace and blessing to you and the rest of your family.

She is just acting. She wants to be in Hollywood and get free money. The people was already dead and gone.

Her hate is just as evil in Gods eyes as his crimes.

@@jaywillzxrp2691 I was thinking the same thing. To hate his family and wish evil upon them is evil itself. My nephew was murdered but I would never wish harm upon the murderer’s family. I’ll pray for the lady that she seeks forgiveness. As for the guy. He needs Christ as well.

Try to control emotions in public.

@@pghmoore I was molested as a child, almost murdered by my cousin and police. I will forgive unconditionally since the lord forgave me. I actually have learned to love to forgive. God did a great work in my heart. I have no left over trauma, am completely at peace resting in my King Jesus.

I don’t care how much pain she in she showed she’s an idiot!!!

What pain,?

@@afarouk3712 r u slow upstairs kid?

Shame on him disgrace disgusting just give this man alive in prison 😡🤬😡🤬 and I hope he rot in prison

@@switchitup5446 I’d say

Yeah. The national miseducation about death and the afterlife generates the emotions that push the legal system out of focus with punishment fitting the crime. It should be a civil and not a criminal matter in the first place IMO.

Sounds like you have never grieved for a loved one

You might not care about your deceased family but some people do🤔

Operating an unlicensed business is a serious crime. If he was an unlicensed accountant, mishandled clients' money, and caused severe emotional stress, he would be facing 11 years, as well.

The dead are dead; their bodies feel nothing. Any harm or disrespect levied affects the living, mainly their surviving loved ones.

I'd say disrespecting the living is way worse that the dead lol. You seem kinda stupid

Let the dead bury the dead - Jesus

it’s a lot worse to disrespect the living

"Let the dead bury the dead - Jesus" re.: how was he laid to rest, considering he was never buried?

Funerals aren't for the dead they're for the living the dead know nothing about their funeral

better to just get a humble pine box wrap the body and place it in the forest. we’re not doing anything for our loved once’s sealing them in concrete and metal and pumping them full of formaldehyde except hurting our own world. we bury enough metal to rebuild the golden gate bridge every year - metal used in coffins

When im dead just throw my body nude in a wooded area and let me return the energy I took while alive back to the earth.

Only because most are mistreated while alive

I think that the people are overreacting he might have actually been taking good care of them you never know

you probably should look at more videos from the trial. what he did to their loved ones are horrible.

​@@RoseNZieg This is my first time seeing this myself. So what did he do?

​ He ran a fake funeral homes, and people would pay him. He had a storage where the bodies were kept. When he cremated the bodies, people did not receive their loved ones ashes. It was strangers ashes they got instead. ​@@teep2056

It sounded like he disrespected or didn't properly prepare the remains but I'd like more clarity too.

@@teep2056the lady in this video is upset because they were expected to bury their loved one. Somehow after the burial, their loved one’s body was found in the funeral in a bad state of decomposition. And I believe she saw it. So she’s traumatized, and was lied to that they buried a casket with no body inside

Exactly He is forgiven ‭‭ Matthew 6:14-15 NLT‬‬ [14] “If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you. [15] But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins.

Their dead. Why we trippin?

@@Filthy_Larry lol

@@Filthy_Larry Ok so you'd be ok with your grandma being taken to the cemetery in a U-haul & dumped in same hole with 2 other people?

@@Filthy_Larry fr fr 🤷

@@Filthy_Larry yo last name is Ruiz go back to Mexico… u a illegal immigrant 😂

19yrs brother for died xmas eve. 1999

@@112chapters3 I'm sorry

@@meezeeneezee7655 its good to be alive. You are no one when you are dead. The good go young. Love

Thanks for the explanation

That u I was like what's this about

I DEFINITELY DONT AGREE WITH ALL THAT SHE SAID .. CANT HAVE ALL THAT HATE IN YOUR HEART ... EVERYTHING YOU WISHED UP ON OTHER WILL DEFINITELY COME BACK AND HUNT YOU ONE WAY OR ANOTHER .. BEST TO FORGIVE AND MOVE ON ...

So true

@@javiertabora3547 Like why wish that upon his whole family

@@MikeBonesJones450 IVE ALWAYS HAD A MIND SET OF ... THOSE THAT DID ME WRONG AND BY ALL MEANS IVE NEVER BEEN IN ANY TYPE OF POSITION BUT I KNOW DEEP IN MY HEAR ITS IN ME TO FORGIVE AND LET GOD BE GOD THE VENGEANCE IS ALL HIS .

@@javiertabora3547 Right

She's hurt bad for sure. She'll calm down and time will scar it up. What works for my anger is boxing. Nothing better to let out that aggression. A couple of good shots to the noggin doesn't hurt the soul either :)

My heart is breaking for these dear families. What an evil thing to do.

I’ve been a psychiatric nurse for 15yrs and that hit home for me too.

Dang, that destroyed everything she was trained to do. That's what happens when evil lurks around.

They chose him not his fault, he didn’t kill them

No it wasn't jus an unlicensed funeral home... he mishandled ppl loved ones remains amongst other foul stuff... the news jus did a terrible job elaborating everything... there were 31 counts all together I believe

@@pettytilltheend9641 What “foul” stuff??

@@UpintheAir457 he should've chosen another career path if he wasn't going to do this job legally.

@@a.h.2667 legally man stop it! Only became legal or illegal in the last 70 yrs, before u needed no license to dispose of the dead.. Now what!cemetary act 251 act of 1968!!! Word

That corpse was someone's loved one, jackass.

I thought was me alone. Your comment is my exact thought. It shows you that constitutions need to be revised.

Smh ppl are so persuaded nowadays tbh like how you disrespect the dead more than the living but the ones who were done wrong in real life dosent get true justice

What??? So they shouldn't care about their loved ones cause children are being abused? How does that make sense?

I was thinking the same thing.

That's a nice idea ❤

yeah the grief lasts but i hope they can obtain peace

That is a beautiful idea, and certainly one that would facilitate HEALING. ❤️‍🩹

They are taking out the loss of their loved ones on him. He didn’t kill your son lady. He didn’t kill your sister. This obsession with the dead is ridiculous and has nothing to do with what he did

@@pedrodurty47 i agree people take funerals and dead bodies too expensive, it’s got to be traumatic tho. imagine your loved one just died then you see them rotting with maggots coming out of their mouth or found out the place you hired to handle the remains was entirely negligent and their remains were rotting somewhere instead of correctly handled. just like sticking needles in a fresh wound instead of putting on a healing patch.

You are delusional

Exactly Elizabeth! Listening to him talk, he still does not believe he did anything wrong! The suit says all we need to know. He's a narcissist.

Greed money. 😡

It wouldn't matter what clothes he's wareing

@@teresadvorak6145 Nice grammar. You finish your job of cleaning toilets yet?

Exactly they over punished him for sure

MAGA BOSS

Yet all funeral homes make a profit from the grief of families.

@@nonprogrediestregredi1711 very true. My mother in laws funeral, casket , plot and headstone total was over $15, 000 dollars but half of the plot and headstone are for my father in law. But we found out it will be close to $4,000 for casket, intering and modifying the headstone with his information.

It's a once in a lifetime moment

You sure do

It didn't work for my son

@@tracker5849: Sorry for your lose. If there were just a few elected officials concerned with the people's welfare, these sort of nightmares would not happen. The funeral industry seems to be an unregulated, free wheeling, all-cash enterprise, somewhat like the 'religion' industry. Seems like it would be an excellent system for money-laundering!!!

@@johnsonhunglo1993 thank you. Yes I'm unhappy at the sketchy lack of service and care my son recieved. At the so called viewing he didn't even have a shirt on...they "loaned" him one and said it would be removed after everyone left. The viewing was in a metal shed...next to the chapel!!!!! HE didn't even have a coffin!!!!!!! He was laying on a bare metal..steel.. gurney!!!!!! He was covered with a cheap walmart fake quilt...They said because he would be cremated within the hour. :( it was HORRIBLE!!!!!! I feel like he was treated like a nameless homeless person then disposed of like last week's garbage!!!! Sorry..didn't mean to rant...it's hard losing my son and him not even shown respect!!!! Not even a blanket to lay on. I know..he didn't know the difference....BUT I DO!!!! R.I.P. CAPTAIN JACOB.....I LOVE YOU AND WE ALL MISS YOU...YOUR BROTHERS ARE DEVASTATED

there is

They got what they paid for . Trying to skimp on the insurance money

Amen Amen. SAME HERE.BUt We All Serve A mighty Good God In.Jèsus Name Amen & Amighty Glory Glory HalleluJah & HalleluJah Thank you Jesus & THANK you Jesus.

They all got buried the guy is just not licensed so yea feel bad that he has no license what a bummer

@@yvonneedwards3245 you serve... Others do not.

Including the ones that fell victim to COVID-19.

@@johnmartinez7758 bra he abused the bodies of the dead, did you watch the vide? her sister was in the funeral home for months. Your a weirdo you probably fk dead bodies too. That’s why you defending him.

Oh not true they were going to sell this man's skin by the foot

He didn’t actually have that job. An imposter.

He wasn’t licensed to do the job.

😢

Right? I. Felt ber anger what. Scummy man

I have a feeling he will get some Prison justice next , No appeal

@@jimthomas7251 guess you never been to prison. He won't get touched

@@sincityraised702 , never been in Prison but he got 12 years avoid it , But Shank you Shank you very much

Agreed 😮

❤️❤️

I watched the trial, he got what he deserved

What did he do? They never said.

@@Rich-yj4ub he did not handle their loved one's bodies properly and in some cases did not prepare or send the bodies to the funerals. As the one lady in court stated, she never had her sister back for burial until a month after and her sister was in a box.

@@Rich-yj4ub he mishandled remains and was running an illegitimate funeral home/funeral services

Read and research....people don't think anymore....they just do

THANK GOD MY FAMILY AND I DIDN'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH SOMETHING AS HORRIBLE AS THIS WITH MY MOM!!! HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN PUT UNDER THE JAIL!!!🤬🤬🤬😤😤😤

@@nettethomas866 👋

​@@nettethomas866 facts

That is so heartbreaking. Those families are dealing with the grief of losing their loved one's, now that grief has been compounded even more with that man's total disregard for the deceased. He showed no regard for the families having to bury their loved one.

Thanks for the clarification.

I agree

Right

You said it .

Well said!

@J P 💯

NO WE PRAY & CLAIM IN THE NAME OF JESUS SHE DOES NOT 🤎🙏🏾

It's best to release build up anger!

I can relate to how she feels, you get so upset until you can’t breathe. I agree though I had to calm myself down because I didn’t want to have a heart attack or be 302ed

@@whitlock1988 302ed?

@@yagerr4279 it’s when they 302 you and commit you to a mental facility from grieving so much, or having a nervous break down. I remember my cousin was on drugs and her kids father had her committed, she was going around talking illogically.

The money is the least of the heinous issue. Imagine discovering your loved ones body in a funeral home a month later not properly stored and that last way you see them is imprinted in your memory now. It's like being haunted.

12 years is crazy tho

@@BS-mk6fg what would you suggest?

Is that what happened? The video didn't go into any detail. I'm GUESSING he took the money and was just planning on dumping them in the town dump? Obviously he had to get rid of the bodies.

Ok, I just read two stories to get a better idea of what happened. From what I can gather: 1. He applied for a license to run funeral services back in 2014 and was denied 2. He ran one anyway, using his connections as a pastor to actual funeral homes and stealing their passcodes to log in to the system and issue death certificates 3. The authorities were eventually alerted because a driver who delivered a body to three church (where he was storing the bodies) noticed he wasn't taking proper storage procedures 4. When caught, they found 89 bodies in the church Things I still don't understand 1. If he had that many bodies not stored properly for over a month in a church, how did no one smell the rotting bodies? 2. What did he finally do with the bodies? Clearly they couldn't stay in the church forever. I'm going to guess that he either threw them in the town dump or something like that. Still not sure how you do that without someone noticing.

Do you even know what's happening? She just wished evil onto his family and his future over what? Wild.

@Chuck Deuces do you even know too whats happening??

She was being a drama queen

@@chuckdeuces911 for mishandling the remains of their relatives.

​@@chuckdeuces911 Sounds like you don't understand what is happening. 🙄

Right??

Could be true but I wonder if that would have changed his mindset. A lot of times a person is who they are.

@@alexism.7712 that is why I first stated “integrity”. Occupations that service people in these type of capacities, having a moral compass is necessary to carry out this service. He lacks that virtue.

I have the feeling he knew the business but cut corners..thinking no one would discover what he was doing

Greed! It is a common motivator of murder- theft- deception- impersonation- ect. He was a very disgusting man.

Well he was running a fake funeral home. You probably would of went nuts on him too.

@@gbagman Why would I go nuts? Nothing would bring back the dead person....plus he did not kill the dead person. Listen, I am a Christian, I practice forgiveness just as my God has forgiven me. All humans are fallible, the moment you forget this is the moment you will surely be dissapointed. For he who hath no sin cast the first stone. Crying, yelling, screaming, being angry, wishing harm on someone is not going to undo the death or the wrong doing. Plus, he was running a real funeral home, but he was also running it real bad....he was not qualified, and I do believe he is remorseful...he should be held accountable, but he should also be forgiven and perhaps not punished to such an extreme degree--12 years.

Greed, the Ole mighty dollar. Horrible.

@@robinlaniertomlinson5373 So true. Its a sin what people will do to get it instead of earning it honestly.

A woman got 6 months in jail for molesting a 10 year old boy for 3 years. He's a living child, so who cares about the dead. Not even God

Are you crazy? This guy was over punished. He’s a black business owner and he’s being punished for that. Do you understand some murderers don’t even get that much time

@@blackway643 I will second that there's no way he should have gotten 12 years some people on here are just pure 🤡s

I totally agree with you. It's so, so very sad.

AMEN💯

I didn’t realize the first women said her son! Like could only imagine their pain

She can feel the pain.

Go cry some more

Exactly 💯

Isn't that how it works?

That's the business model of funeral homes, legitimate or not.

@@nonprogrediestregredi1711 Legitimate funeral services don't all qualify as preying on their clients though.

12 years for what you're insane

@@trenton9 obviously you've never seen the exorbitant costs of a funeral.

A little over the top I would say !!!! But yes I agree !!!

she doin to much

She sound evil

@@davidgribble263 over the top maybe to you I would have gotten past those police and kicked him I'm the Adam's apple

I thought I was the only one thinking she was doing too much

We all did. First she loses her son and then this scumbag desicrates his body and God only knows what else , how much more can this mother take? My heart goes out to her. 💜🫂

Usually the court officers have faces which don't show any emotion when victim impact statements are being read. However, the extremeness of this case just showed how the lady truly empathized with the victim. It was tense to watch this.

I feel her pain but I think she should do some jail time for threatening to punch him that's against the law

@@dylantedlock9481 lmao jail time for her statement? Something is wrong with you.

@@dylantedlock9481 lol fool what.... yall say anything

I lost my son and I also feel the same way. All I could do at times is scream

@@christyjack6252 Yes! Me as well. Sometimes, that's all you have...

My heart breaks for both of you. I'm so sorry for both if your losses.

@@Ria-sd2ex thank you

Cheap labor. Compared to the compition. This is about paying good money for a peace of mind, Not grieving. They paid less. Looking for less expensive services brought them here.

Exactly I agree 💯 percent

I would have let him go it's a funny story

Is that what happened?

Me too😅

Exactly!! To buy those nice suits and drive fancy cars.

God doesn't deal in the dead. Rev Porkchop not teaching the people anything on Sunday.

Yes but she deserves jail time as well for threatening to punch him although yes he does deserve 11 years

I know. Im very upset . He's evil but he will get his. I pray for the family to get peace if its possible. I would be furious!

@@mitzithompson6585 He may be evil but the things that lady let come out her mouth puts her right there with him,I'm so tired of our women acting like this. The second woman expressed herself respectfully without wishing harm on another person and their family. It's power in the tongue and hearing those words takes me back to when I grew up around bw who speak that way to their children/husband's or any man who hurts them. Maybe pray she heals because to able to say such words I don't think its only coming from that situation,she makes it hard to even empathize with her. I just feel sorry for her dead loved one. I'm not denying what he did was wrong but I saw a possessed demon up there.

So sorry for your loss.

He should have gotten more time

My heart hurt for her it just broke me

@@gabrielleelliott500 Yes it's so sad. Breaks my heart.

Amen

Disappointed you? How dare you speak of this woman this way while they’re suffering injustice?? Your mothers remains were NOT tampered with, so why are you speaking??? You have zero compassion and zero mercy for these families!!! And you speak of a most high? Unbelievable!!

@@gabrielamartiniuc6322 thank you for your reply.

Cheap labor. Compared to the compition. This has to do with them looking for less expensive services. That's what brought them here. If u paid good money for a peace of mind. U shldnt expect this. They Paid less.

@@gabrielamartiniuc6322 She didn’t say anything wrong. Just that because of her beliefs that it wouldn’t bother her as much because absent in the body, means present with the Lord. She also didn’t say she was disappointed in the way the woman reacted, but rather she herself would be disappointed if it happened to her family.