Woman arrested for throwing ashes in river

A Texas woman was arrested and charged with abuse of a corpse.

This was two years after she threw her ex-boyfriend’s mother’s ashes into Lake Worth, northwest of Fort Worth.

According to NBCDFW, the Texas woman Augustine Gladney dumped the ashes that belonged to 38-year-old Ernest Smith‘s mother into the lake in 2020 and was charged with the crime abuse of corpse.

Per the Fort Worth police report, in Texas, abuse of a corpse is a Class A misdemeanor and if found guilty, it carries a $4,000 fine and up to a year in prison.

According to records, Gladney’s ex-boyfriend Smith told police on June 3, 2020 that his late mother’s urn was missing from the residence he and Gladney shared.

Smith further maintained that he overheard a conversation Gladney had with her daughter admitting that she the ashes of his mother into the Lake.

Police counseled Smith to collect all text interactions with the woman as evidence.

A viral video on social media has brought the case into the spotlight, in which a woman throws the ashes and then the urn into a river with the caption, “He cheated so i threw his mom ashes in the river.”

https://youtu.be/491oOcx8z3k

However, authorities are yet to confirm if the lady in the viral video is Augustine Gladney.