Harvard CEO indicted for selling body parts
The head of the morgue associated with America’s prestigious Harvard Medical School has been charged with removing body parts from corpses without permission and selling them.
The 55-year-old was fired on 6 May. He is charged with trafficking in stolen remains, according to a statement from the prosecutor’s office covering the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Bodies are donated to the Harvard Medical School for use in education, teaching and research. When they are no longer needed, they are cremated and the ashes returned to the donors’ families, or buried.
In addition to the 55-year-old, the man’s 63-year-old wife is charged in the case. there are also five others who, according to the indictment, have participated in a “national network” where human remains have been bought and sold. This should have taken place from 2018 to 2022.
The 55-year-old is accused of taking body parts, including heads, brains, skin and bones home, where he and his wife, according to the indictment, sent them in the post to buyers. The couple also let buyers into the mortuary to select what they wanted to buy, according to the indictment.
In the indictment, it is alleged that one of the buyers sent human skin to another of those involved in order to get that person to “tan the skin to turn it into leather”.
– We are appalled that something so horrific could happen on our campus, says the medical faculty’s rector George Daley and head of medical education, Edward Hundert, in a joint statement.
(NTB)
2023-06-15 04:31:51
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