The former director of the Morgue of the Harvard School of Medicine declared himself guilty of human organ trafficking and remains. He admitted to the American justice that he had stolen parts of the body of corpses and then sold them, informed the US media this Thursday, May 22, citing the Ministry of Justice.
It faces a maximum sentence of ten years in prison and a fine of $ 250,000 (approximately 220,000 euros) for acts committed between 2018 and at least March 2020.
Several tens of thousands of dollars
According to the Court of Pennsylvania, when he worked in the morgue of the Faculty of Medicine of the prestigious American University, Cedric Lodge “withdrew the human remains, including organs, brains, skin, hands, clashes, dissected chiefs and other parts, the bodies given after research and teaching, but before they could be eliminated according to the agreement of donation and the school.
The fifteenth anniversary transported them to his house and sold them, with his wife who also declared himself guilty, to the people. The total amount of transactions is tens of thousands of dollars, depending on justice, for sales in several states of the country.
University licensee in 2023
Cedric Lodge was fired from Harvard’s Faculty of Medicine in May 2023, recalls ABC News. The University has described the facts of “hateful betrayal” and said that its former employee acted “without anyone’s cooperation” within the establishment.
In France, a scandal had broken after the revelations of the press, at the end of 2019, of the terrible conservation conditions of bodies given to science within the University of Paris-DescartesIn the heart of the capital. Several people, including the former president of the University, have been accused.
Source: BFM TV
