Some 50 mourners, many dressed all in white, gathered at the Bergen Funeral Home to mourn the loss of Daniel Persaud, who perished five days earlier with a friend after the pair tumbled into the water from an outcropping of rocks in Broad Channel.
Samantha Singh demanded to know over the weekend why her son's school waited hours to tell her that he had cut class, well after her teen boy died. Daniel Persaud drowned with friend Ryan Wong after the sandbar they were on in Jamaica Bay suddenly collapsed.