Morgue Employee Sentenced to Prison for Trafficking Brains, Hands, and Faces 0 7

In the United States, a morgue employee was sentenced to eight years in prison for trafficking body parts. This was reported by FOX 44.

58-year-old Cedric Lodge worked as the manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue in Boston for 28 years. It turned out that since 2018, the man began stealing brains, skin, hands, and faces from the deceased whose bodies had been donated to the university for scientific research. He removed organs and body parts before cremation and sold them to interested buyers online. Over four years, Lodge made thousands of dollars from this.

"Lodge treated body parts like trinkets, selling them for profit," said U.S. Assistant Attorney Alison Martin in court. She cited an example where skin was handed over to a buyer for tanning and subsequently used for bookbinding.

The accused's wife, Denise Lodge, who assisted her husband in his criminal activities, received just over a year in prison. After the scandal, Harvard Medical School suspended its donation program for five months.