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Undertaker sued over ‘YouTube vid’

Ghoulish undertakers used video of a 13-year-old’s funeral to market their services on YouTube, a Brooklyn lawsuit charges.

Tiffany Orr claims the video by the Robeson & Brown funeral home callously shows her and her distraught family crying at the August 2012 services for slain teen Ronald Wallace.
Two months after the funeral, Orr said she was stunned to find video of her child’s funeral being used by Robeson & Brown in online promos.

“Neither written consent nor any other manner of permission was provided . . . to defendant for dissemination of the aforementioned video, which contained images of the plaintiff in various stages of mental anguish,” the suit charges.
Wallace was killed that Aug. 24 when a 17-year-old opened fire on another target but fatally wounded the teen in the back instead.

A Robeson & Brown staffer declined to comment Thursday night.
There was no video footage of any funerals on the Robeson & Brown Web site on Thursday.
On YouTube, there was only a 24-second video of the funeral posted by someone else.