WASHINGTON: A former morgue supervisor on the prestigious Harvard Medical Faculty was sentenced on Tuesday (Dec 16) to eight years in jail for stealing and promoting physique components donated for scientific analysis, the USA Justice Division stated.
Cedric Lodge, 58, pleaded responsible in Could to trafficking the stolen stays, which embody inner organs, brains, pores and skin, palms, faces and dissected heads, from 2018 by means of at the least March 2020.
He was fired from the college in Could 2023, Harvard has stated.
Investigators stated Lodge and his spouse, Denise, took physique components from the varsity close to Boston to their residence in Goffstown, New Hampshire, in addition to places in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, “with out the information or permission of his employer, the donor, or the donor’s household” earlier than delivery them to consumers in different states.
Denise Lodge, 65, was sentenced to 1 yr in jail, the Justice Division stated in an announcement.
“Right now’s sentencing is one other step ahead in guaranteeing those that orchestrated and executed this heinous crime are delivered to justice,” stated Wayne A Jacobs, particular agent in control of the FBI’s Philadelphia area workplace.
The Justice Division stated lots of the human stays bought by Lodge have been subsequently resold at a revenue.
A number of of these consumers have been sentenced to jail time or have been awaiting sentencing, the assertion stated.
