Body snatchers
Cherub Charu led off the 11 with a hot one – Mission Hospital used tissue stolen from New York funeral homes to treat 16 patients. The hot button words: “stolen body parts.”
Charu talked to a hospital spokesman, who assured us all that the tissue, used to rebuild joints and ligaments and such, was safe. The tissue had been microwaved, baked, scrubbed and Chloraxed, the doc said. Still, the hospital apparently alerted the patients to contact their doctor immediately.
It was unclear from the report how this all went down. How is the tissue tracked? How do we know it was stolen from New York funeral homes? How dangerous is it? Charu talked to an organ donor advocate, who said she hoped that a story like this wouldn’t deter anyone from becoming an organ donor.
I don’t know about you, but I think I’m going to hang on to my tissue for awhile.
Bad burials
WLOSers took the word of a Haywood County cemetery worker – worker who had been fired – to broadcast a crazy report about bodies being buried in incorrect plots. WLOS used the worker as an anonymous source – we just saw hands and heard a voice. The cemetery owner said the worker was bitter over the firing, but would check into the allegations.
So, if the bodies are in the wrong places, what to do? Exhume and rebury? Just change around the plot markers? Interesting story to follow…
School sex
In another shocking report, WLOSers had a story about a Yancey County teacher who had fondled at least one young student. Again, we see just hands and hear a voice as a student makes the allegation. WLOSers tell us the teacher has been removed from the job and the school is considering every student at school to be sure nobody else was touched.
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Another good reason to be cremated.
Did Cherub get the full dope on who actually owns this cemetery? A corporation called Service Corporation International (SCI) has been accused of improprieties elsewhere including a case in Florida where plots were reused after the previous "occupants" were dumped in the woods. This wasn’t and SCI property was it? They frequently hold property under different names so it isn’t always obvious who the real owner is. Makes me wonder.
The cemetery worker is my neighbor, and she was not fired, but she saw which way the wind was blowing and quit with no notice. She has documented evidence for all the things that broke code (of which there is a sizable amount for boneyards). There are things they didn’t bring up in the story because they don’t sound like a big deal to the public, but they are big deal violations, and the southeastern cemetary overseers are involved in a major way out there.