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A erstwhile morgue manager astatine Harvard Medical School was sentenced Tuesday to 8 years successful situation for stealing and selling assemblage parts donated for technological research, the Justice Department said.
Cedric Lodge, 58, pleaded blameworthy successful May to trafficking the stolen remains, which see interior organs, brains, skin, hands, faces and dissected heads, from 2018 done astatine slightest March 2020.
He was fired from the assemblage successful May 2023, Harvard has said.
Investigators said Lodge and his wife, Denise, took assemblage parts from the schoolhouse adjacent Boston to their location successful Goffstown, New Hampshire, arsenic good arsenic locations successful Massachusetts and Pennsylvania "without the cognition oregon support of his employer, the donor, oregon the donor's family" earlier shipping them to buyers successful different states.
Denise Lodge, 65, was sentenced to 1 twelvemonth successful prison, the Justice Department said successful a statement. She pleaded blameworthy successful April 2024.
Harvard Medical School, successful Boston
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"Today's sentencing is different measurement guardant successful ensuring those who orchestrated and executed this heinous transgression are brought to justice," said Wayne A. Jacobs, peculiar cause successful complaint of the FBI's Philadelphia tract office.
Christopher Nielsen, the Inspector successful Charge of the Philadelphia Division of the Postal Inspection Service said, "The trafficking of stolen quality remains done the US Mail is simply a disturbing enactment that victimizes already grieving families portion besides creating a perchance hazardous concern for Postal employees and customers. I anticipation our efforts, and these sentencings, bring immoderate magnitude of closure to those affected by this unspeakable crime."
The Justice Department said galore of the quality remains sold by Lodge were subsequently resold astatine a profit.
Several of those buyers person been sentenced to jailhouse clip oregon were awaiting sentencing, the connection said.
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