"Call me"
Posted on 10/31/2007 11:33:56 AM PDT by NYer
A 24-year-old New York City man remains jailed after he was found allegedly having sex with a 92-year-old woman's corpse inside the morgue of the hospital where he worked.
Anthony Merino, who works as a lab technician at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, N.J., was arrested Sunday after police responded to a call from a security guard at the hospital. The guard reported witnessing the lab technician sexually desecrating the woman's dead body, according to police.
"This is a first," Lt. Dean Kazinci, spokesman for the Teaneck, N.J., police, told ABC News. "When you think you've heard and seen it all, something like this happens."
Kazinci said the security guards at the hospital told police that they caught Merino in the act of necrophilia. They transported Merino to the police station, he said, and charged him after conducting a police interview.
A spokesman for Holy Name Hospital released a statement to ABC News calling the allegations a "heinous crime."
"We are horrified and saddened for the family of the patient and are completely empathic and sympathetic to them," the statement reads.
Merino had only been working at the hospital for 14 days, according to the statement, and had passed a criminal background check before he was offered the job. The hospital also notified the dead woman's next of kin after contacting authorities.
Merino was arraigned Monday on a charge of desecrating human remains, a second degree crime in New Jersey. A judge set bail at $400,000 with conditions that included Merino surrendering his passport and submitting to a psychological evaluation. He faces a maximum of 10 years in prison, if convicted.
In addition to working part time at Holy Name Hospital, Merino also had a part-time job as a histology technician at Overlook Hospital in Summit, N.J.
Janina Scheytt Hecht, a spokeswoman for Overlook Hospital, confirmed that Merino worked for the hospital from Sept. 10, 2007, until Monday. "He has been terminated," Hecht said, adding that Merino was subject to a background check there before he was hired. She also said no one had filed a complaint against him during his short tenure on the staff.
Necrophilia is a psychological condition that falls under the umbrella category of paraphilia, according to Michael Fogel, the chair of the forensic psychology department at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Paraphilia involves fantasies and sexual urges in which people are aroused by nonhuman objects or pain or humiliation of oneself or a sexual partner.
"It's an extraordinarily rare condition, but it's also a very real condition," said Fogel, who previously served as the director of the Sex Offender Evaluation Unit for the Illinois Department of Corrections. In more than 1,500 evaluations he performed in that role, he said, not one involved the condition of necrophilia.
Fogel said the psychological exam will be critical to understanding what type of risk Merino may pose. He also cautioned against simply calling the suspect, if he is, in fact, convicted of the crime, "nuts."
"In these type of cases, it's a sexual attraction that the individual has," he said. "That's what they're aroused to, it's what they have sexual fantasies about."
She also said no one had filed a complaint against him ...Maybe that’s because “She’s dead, Jim.”
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I am feeling physically ill...I don’t know how or why the human brain works the way it does sometimes.
Oh Ralph! I can’t even this about this without wanting to PUKE!
"Call me"
Oh, this is bad, How is the undertaker going to take that big smile off her face? Sick, I know.
Howdy JRBC! You forgot taxes.....:0)
LOL! But, but she’s not dead...yet!
but they do go hand in hand with the political corruption.
;o)
The so to be “First Gentleman” kind likes this stuff too, remember how he claimed to be turned on by that Inca mummy.
Oh, that's just Naaasty!
There go the conservatives being all “judgemental” again. After all, he couldn’t help who he was attracted to. It probably genetic. /s
Unless the guy was posting pictures on the 'net, it would probably have been better to not notify the family - I certainly would not want to know such a thing about a deceased relative. Is discretion no longer possible?
“I don’t know how or why the human brain works the way it does sometimes.”.....He stuck his finger in light sockets to often when he was a kid.
I think Sam Kinison addressed this.
Person lives 90 some years, dies, and then realizes that life still f#$&s them in the ass even after they’re dead.
Depravity hits a new low.
Gross. Couldn’t he have found someone younger than 92?
======= TRUE TALES FROM "x42 ON THE MAKE" ======
At a Connecticut fundraiser in the spring of 1996, X42 lusted over
a five-hundred-year-old Inca mummy that had just been discovered at the summit of a Peruvian volcano.
"You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out," Clinton said. "That's a good-looking mummy." 
DON’T LOOK ETHEL!
Ewwwwwwwwwwww!!! is right! He should be working for an undertaker.
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