10-year-old Plymouth boy loses necklace containing mom’s ashes

A ten-year-old boy misplaced a pendant necklace containing his mom’s ashes at a soccer apply in Plymouth final week, Boston 25 Information reported. 

Connor Datri of Plymouth misplaced the heat-shaped locket engraved together with his mother’s initials and fingerprint throughout soccer apply at West Elementary Faculty, the 10-year-old advised Boston 25. Datri was taking part in when he realized the pendant had fallen off. 

“I used to be type of shocked that the necklace was on me, however the pendant wasn’t,” Connor stated to Boston 25. “I type of felt upset and mad on the similar time.”

Datri’s grandmother Melissa Moriarty advised Boston 25 that Datri wears the necklace to really feel near his mother. 

“He wears it on a regular basis, and he solely takes it off when he showers,” Moriarty stated. “That is like the one factor that he actually has of his mother.”

Datri’s mother, Lynelle Leonard died in a automobile crash three years in the past, Boston 25 reported. 

Moriarty posted to Fb for assist. Dozens responded, looking the soccer subject within the pouring rain with metallic detectors to attempt to discover the pendant, Boston 25 reported. The necklace has nonetheless not been discovered, Moriarty advised Boston 25. 

The rest of Leonard’s ashes are with Moriarty, although Moriarity stated she continues to be upset not realizing the place the pendant is. 

“My coronary heart hurts, as a result of I don’t know the place she is,” Moriarty stated to Boston 25. “She’s in an urn in my home. I haven’t buried her, as a result of I need to be sure that she’s secure. Her being in my home, I really feel she’s secure… We’re lacking part of my daughter, as a result of she is in that coronary heart.”

Moriarity advised Boston 25 that anybody who finds the necklace is inspired to show it in to Plymouth police.