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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday December 28 2017, @07:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the occupation:-body-broker dept.

Exclusive: Federal agents found fetuses in body broker's warehouse (Warning: Graphic images)

Federal agents discovered four preserved fetuses in the Detroit warehouse of a man who sold human body parts, confidential photographs reviewed by Reuters show. The fetuses were found during a December 2013 raid of businessman Arthur Rathburn's warehouse. The fetuses, which appear to have been in their second trimester, were submerged in a liquid that included human brain tissue. Rathburn, a former body broker, is accused of defrauding customers by sending them diseased body parts. He has pleaded not guilty and his trial is set for January.

How Rathburn acquired the fetuses and what he intended to do with them is unclear. Rathburn's lawyers did not respond to requests for comment, and neither the indictment nor other documents made public in his case mention the fetuses.

"This needs to be reviewed," said U.S. Representative Marsha Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee who recently chaired a special U.S. House committee on the use of fetal tissue. Blackburn recoiled when a Reuters reporter showed her some of the photographs, taken by government officials involved in the raid.

Reuters: The Body Trade


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 28 2017, @09:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 28 2017, @09:10PM (#615269)

    re: lax enforcement: the "authorities" don't enforce anything that has to do with actual violation of rights. they're too busy getting in on the action for that.