Harvard is facing another possible lawsuit over the theft and sale of body parts from its morgue."They sent my father's ashes back," said Peltonovich."I don't even know if they are my father's ashes."
Her parents, Joan and Nicholas Pichowicz, wanted to do something for science, so they signed up to have their bodies donated to Harvard Medical School.Sign up for NECN newsletters.Last week, she received a letter from Harvard alerting her that her dad could be one of the people whose body was tampered with.Prosecutors say Harvard Medical School's morgue manager, Cedric Lodge, allowed people into the morgue to choose which body parts they wanted.
"It's shocking to me there could be so many victims over the course of five years," said Tom Flaws of Altman Nussbaum Shunnarah Trial Attorneys."And where was the oversight? Where were the people questioning what was happening with these bodies?"