WASHINGTON: A former morgue supervisor on the prestigious Harvard Medical College was sentenced on Tuesday (Dec 16) to eight years in jail for stealing and promoting physique elements donated for scientific analysis, the USA Justice Division mentioned.
Cedric Lodge, 58, pleaded responsible in Might to trafficking the stolen stays, which embrace inside organs, brains, pores and skin, fingers, faces and dissected heads, from 2018 by at the very least March 2020.
He was fired from the college in Might 2023, Harvard has mentioned.
Investigators mentioned Lodge and his spouse, Denise, took physique elements from the varsity close to Boston to their residence in Goffstown, New Hampshire, in addition to places in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, “with out the data or permission of his employer, the donor, or the donor’s household” earlier than transport them to consumers in different states.
Denise Lodge, 65, was sentenced to 1 12 months in jail, the Justice Division mentioned in an announcement.
“Right this moment’s sentencing is one other step ahead in making certain those that orchestrated and executed this heinous crime are dropped at justice,” mentioned Wayne A Jacobs, particular agent in command of the FBI’s Philadelphia subject workplace.
The Justice Division mentioned most of the human stays offered by Lodge had been subsequently resold at a revenue.
A number of of these consumers have been sentenced to jail time or had been awaiting sentencing, the assertion mentioned.
