A former mortuary worker in Arkansas has pleaded guilty to selling 24 boxes of stolen body parts from medical school cadavers to a Pennsylvania man for nearly $11,000, Associated Press reported on Thursday (Apr 25).

A former mortuary worker in Arkansas has pleaded guilty to selling 24 boxes of stolen body parts from medical school cadavers to a Pennsylvania man for nearly $11,000, Associated Press reported on Thursday (Apr 25). Thirty-seven-year-old Candace Chapman Scott pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and one count of interstate transportation of stolen property. Scott had pleaded not guilty when she was indicted in 2023 in the case. The report said that Scott was among the several people charged in what prosecutors called a nationwide scheme to steal and sell human body parts from an Arkansas mortuary and Harvard Medical School. Also read | Former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, announces White House bid An indictment sealed in 2023 accused the woman of setting up the transactions with Jeremy Pauley, the Pennsylvania man she met through a Facebook group. In September, Pauley pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the theft and sale of the body parts from the Arkansas mortuary and Harvard. Scott's prison sentence Under a plea agreement with Scott, federal prosecutors dropped 10 other wire and mail charges sought against her. But she faces up to 10 years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine on the transporting stolen property charge. Scott also faces up to 20 years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine on the mail fraud charge. She worked at the Arkansas Central Mortuary Services, where part of her job was to transport, cremate, and embalm remains. The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences said that’s where the medical school sent remains of cadavers that had been donated for medical students to examine. The indictment Last year's indictment alleged that Scott approached Pauley in October 2021 and began offering to sell him remains from the medical school that the mortuary was supposed to cremate and return. It alleged that over the next nine months, Scott sold Pauley fetuses, brains, hearts, lungs, genitalia, large pieces of skin, and other body parts. The indictment also alleged that at one point, Scott sold the remains of a fetus at a discount, writing “he’s not in great shape.” (With inputs from agencies)

Ex-mortuary worker in US pleads guilty to selling 24 boxes of stolen body parts

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Ex-mortuary worker in US pleads guilty to selling 24 boxes of stolen body parts