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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."
HOW could you do that to us?
You big meanie. LOL
Probably to many restrictions at an undertakers. Pesky visitors and all that. He more than likely had free rein at the morgue...
Where there is a will, there is a way...
We certainly have our share of sickies in this ‘great society’
There now. I fixed that for you. LOL
Shades of Rudy! This is disgusting!
Rudy Ziemer????
Send him to San Franfreako and call it an alternative, loving, kindly, and sensitive lifestyle.
What I want to know is where his passport leads back to?? The last name could be Mexican/Spanish? Any other ideas about his last name?
Since he is NOT an American, one would have to assume that out of 300 million people in America, not one of them could have held this job?
Surely he was only working one of those jobs that lazy Americans won't work? < / sarcasm >
Damn it, Wall...
Person lives 90 some years, dies, and then realizes that life still f#$&s them in the ass even after they’re dead.
Thanks, I was trying to recall which comedian had done that skit.
Ew!
“Since he is NOT an American...”
Was that in this article or another article?
You’ve heard of Milf, you’ve heard of Gilf.. but just in time for Halloween there’s.. ZILF!
Zombies I’d like to, er.. nevermind.
This boy just ain’t right.
oh Jersey. ugh! Poor gal, you must be desperate for a NJ story.
And Holy Name hospital, what a sad thing to report.
Yes, it was in this article. You must have missed it. It was in this paragraph:
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.
That doesn’t necessarily mean he’s from another country. Americans can also have passports.
Oops! I thought the Hospital Necrophilia Act was part of Hillary’s health care plan.
Now, see...that's just wrong.
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