哈佛医学院同意支付5300万美元和解金，以解决因前太平间管理员塞德里克·洛奇盗取并在黑市出售捐献者遗体部分而引发的集体诉讼1。该和解将补偿47名受害者家属，涉及2018年1月1日至2023年3月31日期间发生的案件1。
洛奇非法运送了包括大脑、皮肤、手和面部在内的尸体部分给宾州等地的买家1。他已于2023年被起诉并被判入狱8年1。其妻子丹尼斯·洛奇因参与此事也被判入狱1年多1。此外，6名购买尸体部分的其他人员已认罪并被判刑1。洛奇还曾提供皮肤用于鞣制成皮革并装订成书1。
哈佛医学院院长将这一事件称为"令人厌恶、可憎，以及对我们医学界价值观的公然背弃"1。作为和解的一部分，哈佛承诺改进其解剖捐赠项目并设立奖学金以纪念捐献者1。
Harvard Medical School has agreed to pay $53 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit stemming from the theft and illegal sale of donated human remains by a former morgue manager.1 The settlement will compensate 47 families of victims whose body parts were stolen and sold on the black market between January 1, 2018, and March 31, 2023.1
Cedric Lodge, the former morgue manager at Harvard's facility, orchestrated the scheme by illegally transporting human remains including brains, skin, hands, and facial tissue to buyers in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.1 Lodge was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2023, while his wife Denise Lodge received more than one year in prison.1 Six additional individuals who purchased body parts from Lodge have pleaded guilty and been sentenced.1 In one particularly egregious instance, Lodge provided skin that was tanned into leather and bound into books.1
Beyond the financial settlement, Harvard has committed to strengthening its anatomical donation program and establishing a scholarship fund in honor of the donors affected by the misconduct.1 Harvard Medical School's dean characterized the scheme as "despicable, abhorrent, and a flagrant betrayal of our values as a medical community."1
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