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 Could to trafficking the stolen stays, which embody inside organs, brains, pores and skin, arms, faces and dissected heads, from 2018 by way of a minimum of March 2020.
He was fired from the college in Could 2023, Harvard has mentioned.
Investigators mentioned Lodge and his spouse, Denise, took physique elements from the varsity close to Boston to their house in Goffstown, New Hampshire, in addition to areas 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 patrons in different states.
Denise Lodge, 65, was sentenced to 1 12 months in jail, the Justice Division mentioned in an announcement.
“As we speak’s sentencing is one other step ahead in guaranteeing those that orchestrated and executed this heinous crime are dropped at justice,” mentioned Wayne A Jacobs, particular agent accountable for the FBI’s Philadelphia area workplace.
The Justice Division mentioned lots of the human stays offered by Lodge had been subsequently resold at a revenue.
A number of of these patrons have been sentenced to jail time or had been awaiting sentencing, the assertion mentioned.
