46-year-old Megan Hess was sentenced in the US state of Colorado to 20 years in prison for dismembering and selling body parts without permission. This happened while she worked and owned a funeral home.
His mother, Shirley Koch, was also sentenced to 15 years in prison for the same horrific acts. They must have done this with nearly 560 bodies, he says ABC News.
– The actions of Hess and Koch have caused enormous emotional pain to families and relatives, said state attorney Tim Neff.
In 2009, Hess founded a company that resold body parts to people in need of donors. To hide the fact that the bodies had been dismembered or sold, she and her mother are said to have given the bereaved families the ashes of random people instead of their relatives.
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According to Reuters, the sale of body parts is almost an unregulated industry in the United States. However, the sale of organs for transplantation is illegal as they have to be donated. But it is legal to sell body parts such as arms, heads, bones and spines for research purposes.
They are also said to have sent the body parts of people who died from infectious diseases such as HIV, Hepatitis B and C without notifying the buyers.
– They dismembered our kind, sweet mother, said one of the survivors.
Hess and Koch’s defense attorney Ashley Petrey said Hess’s motivation was to improve medical research.
“Eight years with the same crime of this severity say all the court needs to know about his history and character,” Neff replied bluntly.
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