Maybe to get them to press charges? Grandma WAS violated, after all.
And people wonder what the phrase “coarsening of the culture” really means.
Did the Massachusetts Supreme Court allow marriage to the dead yet?
You’re right - to press charges, they probably had to ID the corpse for the court, thus informing the family would be essential.
“Coarsening of the culture” doesn’t quite capture this trend; perhaps “rape of the culture” would be franker.