Standing Rock must pay $750,000 to a Kent father in gravesite dispute

A before picture of Adam Molai’s gravesite. Submitted photo

Standing Rock must pay $750,000 to a Kent father in gravesite dispute

- Wendy DiAlesandro

After eight years and multiple court rulings, former Kent resident Fred Molai says he can finally grieve in peace at his son’s grave.

Last Friday, a Portage County Common Pleas Court jury awarded Molai damages of $750,000, siding with Molai that the Standing Rock Cemetery Board of Trustees had breached Molai’s contractual rights related to a family plot he had purchased in the cemetery.

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