{"id":297786,"date":"2025-07-28T06:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/297786\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T06:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:21:10","slug":"aunt-raises-funds-for-neglected-birmingham-toddlers-headstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/297786\/","title":{"rendered":"Aunt raises funds for neglected Birmingham toddler&#8217;s headstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has been a long and difficult wait, with trials and social service involvement, but on 1 July at Sutton Coldfield New Hall Cemetery, Abiyah was laid to rest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a small, intimate affair, with members of family on his mom&#8217;s side,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;No one came from his dad&#8217;s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The service was organised by Birmingham City Council which owned the grave, before transferring its ownership over to Ms Rowe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But currently, Ms Rowe says there is just a stick in the ground marking young Abiyah&#8217;s grave, and she is unable to afford the expense of a headstone for her nephew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Rowe has launched a GoFundMe page in a bid to raise enough for a gravestone for Abiyah, saying: &#8220;I feel like I just want to be able to give him something nice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just want him to have the best send-off.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been a long and difficult wait, with trials and social service involvement, but on 1 July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-297786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114929420558933907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}