Federal prosecutors are seeking a 10-year prison sentence for former Harvard Medical School morgue manager Cedric Lodge, arguing that his theft and sale of human remains from donated cadavers amounted to unusually heinous conduct that federal sentencing guidelines fail to adequately address.

Lodge pleaded guilty this year in the Middle District of Pennsylvania to charges related to the interstate transportation of stolen goods, admitting that he stole body parts from cadavers donated to Harvard Medical School’s Anatomical Gift Program and sold them to buyers across the country.

Prosecutors say that between about 2018 and March 2020, Lodge removed organs, brains, skin, hands, faces, dissected heads, and other remains after the cadavers had been used for teaching and research but before

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