Colorado Ex-Funeral Directors Jailed for Selling Body Parts
You have to wonder how often this is going on.
An ex-funeral home owner and her mother have been sentenced in Colorado after selling body parts without any consent.
Megan Hess, 46, and Shirly Koch, 69, dissected some 560 corpses between 2010 and 2018, selling parts to medical training companies which did not know they had been fraudulently acquired.
Entire bodies were sold in some cases, prosecutors said. It is legal in the US to donate organs, but not sell them.
Hess was sentenced to 20 years in jail and Koch to 15.
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