NationStates Jolt Archive


Four Charged After Us Body Thefts

Ratod
24-02-2006, 13:33
Four men have been charged in the US
with stealing bones and body parts from
more than 1,000 corpses and selling
them for medical transplants.

Those charged include a dentist and the
owner of a funeral home in Brooklyn,
New York.

Prosecutors say the accused made
millions of dollars from selling body
parts harvested from corpses obtained
from the funeral home.

The men allegedly replaced the bones of
their victims with PVC piping so that
their theft would not be noticed at a
funeral.

What are they going to be charged with..Grand theft tibia.I always tought that to transplant anything the donor corpse would have to be fairly fresh..You know if they had not profited from it ,I might go so far as to say that they were improving lives of people who needed these transplants.
Rotovia-
24-02-2006, 13:38
It'd be funny if the doners got charged with receiving stolen property...
Ratod
24-02-2006, 13:39
It'd be funny if the doners got charged with receiving stolen property...
Didn't think of that .Now that would be funny.
Jeruselem
24-02-2006, 13:41
If they were incinerating dead bodies and not just burying them, they would have got away with it.
Ratod
24-02-2006, 13:53
Still can't see how they were able to use anything for transplant.