Posted on 05/22/2025 7:59:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Harvard University has been in the news a lot over the last couple of years, but for all the wrong reasons. They tolerated virulent antisemitism on their Cambridge, Massachusetts campus after the Oct. 7 Hamas slaughter of Israelis, their president resigned over the matter, plus accusations of plagiarism, and lately they’ve been involved in a battle with the Trump administration over DEI and the failure to protect their Jewish students from hate.
But it just got worse:
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.
The former manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue pleaded guilty to stealing body parts from cadavers donated to the Boston institution and then selling them, federal prosecutors said.
https://t.co/sC38cYzqVT pic.twitter.com/h5IKs9JVhl— ABC News (@ABC) May 22, 2025
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This guy’s activities come straight out of a horror movie:
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.
My first question is: Who is he selling the body parts to? And for what reason are they purchasing them?
On second thought, maybe I don’t want to know.
BREAKING: Former Harvard morgue manager pleads guilty to federal charges for trafficking stolen human remains
https://t.co/mZuvjzcuc8— 7News Boston WHDH (@7News) May 22, 2025
Harvard officials of course condemned the actions of Lodge, but they have to be wondering, what the heck is the news about us going to be tomorrow?
"Cedric Lodge’s criminal actions were morally reprehensible and a disgraceful betrayal of the individuals who altruistically chose to will their bodies to Harvard Medical School’s Anatomical Gift Program to advance medical education and research," Harvard Medical School Dean George Daley wrote in a statement to Fox News Digital.
I’m not sure what to say about this one, other than, “what the absolute heck.” Sometimes there’s just nothing else to say.
That's just not an adjective I'd use for thievery. I was expecting abuse of a corpse. Not parting grandpa or uncle jim out the back door.
RE: This sounds more like Robert Louis Stevenson or Charles Dickens!
Yes, it looks like the best and the worst of times…
Agree ... with the headline “disgusting crime”, I was expecting something VERY different from trafficking stolen body parts ...
And with a fine Chianti.
Speechless.
“Cedric?’
Is he a Brit?
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