A former Alabama morgue employee was recently sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for illegally selling human remains, including fetal tissue, to a man who underwent extensive facial alterations. New York Post Informed.
According to Jonathan Dee, 37-year-old Candace Chapman Scott sold human remains to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Anatomical Gift Program to Jeremy Lee Pauley of Pennsylvania, whom she met through a Facebook group in which “open The sale of body parts was discussed.” Ross, US Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
During his sentencing Thursday, Judge Brian S. Miller described his crimes as “some of the worst crimes I have ever seen” and charged Ross, of Little Rock, with transporting stolen human body parts across state lines and conspiracy to commit mail fraud. sentenced for. According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
He pleaded guilty to the charges last April.
According to prosecutors, Scott’s horrific actions – selling a skull, brain, hands, ears, multiple lungs, hearts, breasts, a navel, testicles and other body parts – occurred between October 2021 and July 15, 2022.
Pauley, 42, a self-proclaimed “odd collector,” paid her $10,625 for 24 boxes of body parts, part of a disturbing underground network of body snatchings linked to Harvard Medical School and an Arkansas morgue. Were part.
When investigators searched Scott’s home, they found several body parts, and he admitted that he had collected them during his job.
The ruthless mortuary employee even told Pauley that the wrong ashes from the cremated body would be sent “to the parents of the dead fetus,” prosecutors said.
“Imagine finding out that the cremated remains you were given after your child died were not actually your child’s, because instead the FBI had recovered that child’s body in another state. In this case “This is shockingly true,” Ross said in a press release.
He said, “Baby Lux was named ‘Lux Siloam’, which means ‘light sent’, and now her light has illuminated an evil and dark underworld of criminals who steal stolen human bodies and bodies. involved in organ trafficking.”
At the sentencing hearing, Lux’s mother Donesha Smith told the judge she was devastated to learn of the horrific crimes.
As the Gazette reports, she is haunted at night by the thought that “my son is being sent in the mail like an Amazon package.”
Judge Miller became emotional and cried and apologized before handing down the sentence.
The FBI described the crime as “truly incomprehensible and despicable”.
Alicia D. Corder, FBI Special Agent in Charge of Little Rock, said, “This sentence does not diminish the immeasurable harm caused to the victims’ families, but the FBI and our partners will continue to work tirelessly to ensure justice is served for all.”
Meanwhile, Pauley is out on bail awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty in Pennsylvania to conspiracy and interstate transportation of stolen property, according to the Gazette.
