Harvard Medical School to pay $53m after donated body parts sold on black market

Morgue manager Cedric Lodge got eight years in prison and 47 grieving families will split the settlement over the stolen remains.

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Many people willed their remains to Harvard Medical School on the understanding they would be used in research and education. But the school's morgue manager sold these body parts on the black market, was caught, and now Harvard has agreed to pay $53m to settle class action lawsuits filed by 47 grieving families.

It's not fully clea…