New Delhi, Dec. 17 -- A former morgue manager at the Harvard Medical School has been sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing and selling body parts that had been donated for research purposes. The US Justice Department said in a statement that Cedric Lodge, 58 years old, had pleaded guilty for trafficking the stolen remains. His wife, Denise Lodge, was also sentenced to one year in prison after admitting to participating in the sale of stolen human remains.

The organs that he stole and sold included internal organs, brains, skin, hands, faces and dissected heads. He had stolen body parts from the Harvard Medical School from 2018 through at least March 2020. He was fired from the university in May 2023, Harvard has said.

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