Effervescence prevails at Harvard as the director of the American University Medical School Mortuary, his wife and four other persons are accused by the US justice system of trade in human organs and relics. “Some crimes are impossible to understand”Pennsylvania U.S. Attorney Gerard Karam said Wednesday (6/14) in a news release announcing the arrest and indictment of Cedric Lodge, 55, and his wife Denise Lodge, 63.
The couple and four other persons are being prosecuted, among other things, for “complicity in the theft and illegal transportation of stolen goods”says the press release, which confirms information from the Boston Globe, the New England newspaper in the northeastern US.
The Lodges and another person, Katrina McLean, 44, of Massachusetts, were arrested on Wednesday, according to US authorities.
He was part of a national ring that bought and sold human remains stolen from Harvard and an Arkansas morgue.
Cedric Lodge, director until May of the Harvard Medical School morgue, is accused of being a member of a “national ring (…) that bought and sold human remains stolen from Harvard and an Arkansas morgue” from 2018 to 2022, according to the federal judiciary.
His manager morgue of the university, which is one of the oldest in the USA and is located near Boston, “stole organs and other parts of corpses that had been donated to science, for medical research and education, before they were cremated».
“The theft and trafficking of human remains strikes at the very essence of what makes us human beings,” ruled federal prosecutor Karam, denouncing, as reported by the Athens News Agency, the group’s “heinous” and “horrific” acts and promising that it would be brought to justice justice for the “victims” and their relatives.
Harvard medical school deans freaked out
In an e-mail message released to the public under the title “A Disgusting Betrayal,” Harvard Medical School deans George Daly and Edward Hundert said thati was informed with “horror” that “something so disturbing could have happened at the university” which “is dedicated to the care and service” of people.
Mr. Lodge was fired in early May from the institution and authorities “believe he acted without the assistance of anyone” at the university, they said, while stressing that the other persons being prosecuted as part of the investigation into the case had “nothing to do with the Harvard.”
Source: News Beast
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