US Woman Charged For Selling Stolen Body Parts Over Facebook

A woman named Candace Chapman Scott in the United States was convicted after she was found her selling body parts. The investigation later revealed that she stole the body parts and aimed to sell them to a stranger she went on social media.

The woman used to work in Arkansas Central Mortuary Services, where she was assigned to transport, cremate and embalm remains as part of her job. Reportedly, she had 20 boxes of stolen body parts including human hearts, liver, foetuses, lungs and genitalia.

According to court filings, Candace Chapman Scott stole a man's skull, bones, and teeth from a medical school and sold them to a man she met online for 11,000 dollars (approx 9 lakh rupees), the New York Post revealed.

Woman Sells Body Parts

According to the April 5 indictment, which was made public on Friday in federal court, Scott sold the items to the man online after meeting him through the Facebook group "Oddities."

Furthermore, the outlet said in the report, Scott is currently being held in custody and has entered a not-guilty plea to 12 counts, including conspiracy to commit mail fraud, fraud by mail, fraud by wire, conspiracy to transport stolen property across state lines, and transportation of stolen property across state lines.

She is also charged with contacting the man and presenting him with a "still intact, embalmed brain" in October 2021.

According to the source, the man was identified as Jeremy Lee Paula in unrelated charges in Pennsylvania even though his name was not included in the federal indictment.

During the nine-month period of their financial dealings, Scott sold the man foetuses, hearts, genitalia, lungs, skin, brains, and other body parts.

According to Judge J Thomas Ray, the alleged behaviour is "shocking and depraved." She is not allegedly dangerous, therefore the judge may only direct her to undergo time in jail if she poses a flight risk.

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