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'Shocks The Conscience': Colonia Doctor Who Exploited Undocumented Home Servants Sentenced 'Shocks The Conscience': Colonia Doctor Who Exploited Undocumented Home Servants Sentenced
'Shocks The Conscience': Colonia Doctor Who Exploited Undocumented Home Servants Sentenced A doctor from Tinton Falls will spend time in prison for the abusive exploitation of two undocumented women from India, including denying one woman lifesaving surgery for a brain aneurysm, authorities said. Harsha Sahni, 68, was sentenced on Monday, Oct. 28 to two years and three months in prison, New Jersey's U.S. Attorney Philip Sellinger said in a news release. The former rheumatologist with a practice in the Colonia section of Woodbridge Township previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to conceal and harbor aliens and filing a false tax return. According to cour…
Stillborn Baby Corpses Sold By Nationwide Network: USDOJ Indictment Stillborn Baby Corpses Sold By Nationwide Network: USDOJ Indictment
Stillborn Baby Corpses Sold By Nationwide Network: Usdoj Indictment Two Pennsylvania men have been indicted in connection to purchasing human body parts— including stillborn babies— from medical students through social media, according to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Those indicted for conspiracy and interstate transport of stolen goods charges— the goods being human body parts— are as follows according to the US Department of Justice: Cedric Lodge, age 55, of Goffstown, New Hampshire. Katrina Maclean, age 44, of Salem, Massachusetts. Joshua Taylor, age 46, of West Lawn, Pennsylvania. Denise Lo…
Pig-Heart Transplant Patient Not 'Deserving' Due To Criminal Past, Victim's Family Says Pig-Heart Transplant Patient Not 'Deserving' Due To Criminal Past, Victim's Family Says
Pig-Heart Transplant Patient Not 'Deserving' Due To Criminal Past, Victim's Family Says A man who made history as the world's first pig-heart transplant recipient was convicted of stabbing a man in the 1980s, making him undeserving of the transplant, the victim's family tells the Washington Post. David Bennett Sr., 57, received a genetically modified pig-heart to replace his own after he was diagnosed with terminal heart disease. Thirty-four years earlier, Bennett Sr. stabbed Edward Schumaker multiple times, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, The Post says. Bennett and family.UMD School of Medicine "He gets a second chance with a new heart — but I wish, in my opini…