Posted on 09/19/2006 12:39:43 PM PDT by Froufrou
A doctor has pleaded not guilty to stealing a hand from a New Jersey medical school cadaver and giving it to an exotic dancer, authorities said.
Ahmed Rashed, a 2005 graduate of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, was charged Monday after voluntarily returning from Los Angeles, where he is in a residency program, said his lawyer, Hassen Abdellah.
Rashed, 26, is free on $1,000 bail.
The dancer, Linda Kay, kept the hand in a jar of formaldehyde in her bedroom. Friends have said she called the hand "Freddy."
Police discovered the hand, along with six human skulls, at Kay's home in July, after being called there on a report that a roommate was suicidal. The roommate was not home, but Kay was.
Kay, 31, has pleaded not guilty to unlawful disposal of human remains. Her mother has said she believed the skulls were bought from a mail order catalog.
The left hand was taken in May or June 2002, according to an investigation by the school and South Plainfield police, said Middlesex County Assistant Prosecutor Judson Hamlin.
Medical school spokeswoman Anna Farneski said in a statement that the investigation is ongoing.
The charge against Rashed carries up to 10 years in prison.
Igor: Promise me you want be angry with me.
Dr.F: I will not be angry!
Igor: Abbe...someone.
Dr.F: Abbe someone? Abbe who?
Igor: AbbeNormal.
Dr.F: AbbeNormal!
Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name.
Dr.F: Are you saying that i put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, 54 inch wide, gorilla? [hysterical, grabs Igor by neck and lifts up and down off the floor]
Is that what you're telling me?
(a short while later)
Dr.F: We've all of us, got to behave normally!
Very nice. Beat me to it. :)
Odd I know some dancers and none are into devil worship. Where are you getting your facts? 1st hand?
Maybe he's a Tom Lehrer fan.
I hold your hand in mine, dear,
I press it to my lips.
I take a healthy bite
From your dainty fingertips.
My joy would be complete, dear,
If you were only here,
But still I keep your hand
As a precious souvenir.
The night you died I cut it off.
I really dont know why.
For now each time I kiss it
I get bloodstains on my tie.
Im sorry now I killed you,
For our love was something fine,
And till they come to get me
I shall hold your hand in mine.
See post 40.
I was looking for the one about being 'a glove on the hand on which you lean your cheek.' But, yours it good, too! <:-O
Obviously didn't know what the right hand was doing.....
My bother's a doctor and I've heard plenty of wacky med school cadaver stories. There's not enough cadavers to go around for each class, so classes share them. It wasn't unheard of for the morning class to leave presents, candies and such, in the cadaver for the afternoon class.
I think it's safe to amend that statement to "where he WAS in a residency program".
That's quite different from removing a cadaver's hand from the premises and giving it to an "exotic dancer".
Oh, well. Think of all the money he'll save. Maybe he can buy an arm and a leg.
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