" 7 plead guilty in stolen body parts case " Eeww!

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061018/ap_on_re_us/body_parts

NEW YORK - Seven funeral home directors linked to a scheme to plunder corpses and sell the body parts for transplants have secretly pleaded guilty to undisclosed charges, prosecutors announced Wednesday.

Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes also announced that a grand jury had voted to bring a new indictment in the case that adds allegations involving funeral homes in New York City and Rochester.

"It is clear that many more funeral home directors were involved in this enterprise," Hynes said.

The seven unidentified directors all agreed to cooperate in an ongoing investigation into what investigators describe as an enterprise to steal bone and tissue from cadavers and sell the material to biomedical supply companies for profit, Hynes said.

All seven entered their pleas in closed courtrooms and their names were withheld. However, defense attorneys said one of them was the director of a funeral home that took parts from the body of late "Masterpiece Theatre" host Alistair Cooke.

[whistle]

1. Dr Victor Frankenstein I presume

[Tellurian]

6. Cloning, Alistair Cooke, maybe?

"director of a funeral home that took parts from the body
of late "Masterpiece Theatre" host Alistair Cooke."

I watch PBS all the time.. He was a great host!

[Parche]

2. stolen

And if found guilty in court, they wont have a leg to stand on...........

[acmavm]

3. Undisclosed charges? How does that work?

[MADem]

4. Well, ya want those "Collagina Jolie" lips that look like you got smacked

in the mouth?? The stuff that lasts the longest is SOYLENT GREEN, in essence--ground up people injected into the skin. They were also going for bone chunks for hip transplants and dental implants!


Ya gotta wonder if they managed to grab a viable cornea or three....

I object to their concealing the names of these outfits, with the exception of the one guy who was the whistleblower (ironically, HIS business name was revealed: http://pqarchiver.nypost.com/nypost/access/948262301.html?dids=948262301:948262301&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Dec+22%2C+2005&author=BRAD+HAMILTON&pub=New+York+Post&edition=&startpage=015&desc=COOKE+%27BODY%27+SNATCH+-+BONES+STOLEN%3A+COPS . They should be exposed to the full light of day, and SHAMED out of business.

But this part is just craven--damn, they couldn't even leave the old guy in the chair alone!!!


....one of them was the director of a funeral home that took parts from the body of late "Masterpiece Theatre" host Alistair Cooke.

[Warpy]

8. What they most likely took

were bone and cartilage. Other parts have to be harvested rather quickly, meaning with consent and the help of a surgical suite and proper storage and transport facilities.

The problem is not only did they fail to gain consent, they also failed to consider the age of the person who died and any health issues, Hepatitis B and C and HIV among them.

So not only did they desecrate the dead against family wishes, they also didn't care if they sickened the living.

They should never see freedom again.

[MADem]

9. I'm with you---baaaaaaastids, they are, evil baaaaastids!!! NT

[notadmblnd]

5. Grave robbers.... actually more like corpse robbers

Isn't anything sacred to republicans? Cause I will lay money on it.. That these people are pukes. What's next, plucking their own mothers eyes from their sockets while she's still alive, would be my guess.:crazy:

[Hubert Flottz]

7. I think dAnn Coaltarr stole Barney Fife's neck!

And Bozo's Brain...