ハーバード大学医学部の遺体安置所の管理者が臓器、脳、皮膚、手、顔、解剖された頭部などの遺体の一部を盗み、闇市場で売っていたことを認める
ハーバード大学医学部の遺体安置所の管理者が臓器を盗み、闇市場で売っていたことを認める
ハーバード大学医学部の元遺体安置所管理者が最近、寄付された遺体の部分を盗んで売却する計画があったとされる件に関して罪を認めた。
ペンシルベニア州中部地区連邦検事局の報道発表によると、ニューハンプシャー州ゴフスタウン在住のセドリック・ロッジ容疑者（57）は 、水曜日、マシュー・W・ブラン連邦地方裁判所首席判事の前で、盗難遺体の州間輸送 の罪を認めた。
連邦法に基づく最高刑は懲役10年、懲役後の保護観察期間、罰金である。
発表によると、有罪判決後の量刑は、適用される連邦量刑法と連邦量刑ガイドラインを考慮した上で裁判官によって言い渡される。
当局によると、ロッジ容疑者は2018年から少なくとも2020年3月まで、マサチューセッツ州のハーバード大学医学部の遺体安置所から盗まれた遺体の売買と州間輸送に関与していたことを認めたという。
発表によると、当時ハーバード大学医学部の遺体安置所の管理者だったロッジ氏は、寄贈された遺体が研究や教育の目的で使用された後、寄贈者と大学の間の解剖学的寄贈契約に従って処分される前に、臓器、脳、皮膚、手、顔、解剖された頭部などの遺体の一部を取り除いたという。
Harvard Medical School morgue manager admits to stealing organs, selling them on the black market
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A former Harvard Medical School morgue manager recently entered a plea in relation to an alleged scheme to steal and sell donated body parts.
Cedric Lodge, 57, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty to interstate transport of stolen human remains on Wednesday before Chief U.S. District Judge Matthew W. Brann, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
The maximum penalty under federal law is 10 years in prison, a term of supervised release following imprisonment and a fine.
A sentence following a finding of guilt is imposed by the judge after “consideration of the applicable federal sentencing statutes and the federal sentencing guidelines,” according to the release.
Officials said Lodge admitted that from 2018 through at least March 2020 he participated in the sale and interstate transport of human remains stolen from the Harvard Medical School morgue in Massachusetts.
Lodge, then-manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue, removed human remains, including organs, brains, skin, hands, faces, dissected heads and other parts from donated cadavers after they had been used for research and teaching purposes, but before they could be disposed of according to the anatomical gift donation agreement between the donor and the school, according to the release.
He took the remains to his home in New Hampshire without the permission or knowledge of his employer, the donors or donors’ families.
After he and his wife sold the remains, they would ship the remains to the buyers in other states or the buyer would take possession directly and transport the remains themselves, according to the release.
“While Lodge has agreed to plead guilty and taken responsibility for his crimes, this likely provides little consolation to the families impacted,” Daley added. “We continue to express our deep compassion to all those affected.”
Several defendants charged in related cases pleaded guilty, receiving sentences of about a year in prison.
Denise Lodge and Joshua Taylor are still awaiting sentencing.
