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Lawsuit: Unidentified Corpses Rotting in Boxes Inside Chicago Colleges

‘Countless employees, students exposed to bacteria from decaying human bodies’

AP
April 30, 2015

Unidentified and improperly stored dead bodies are rotting in colleges in Chicago, exposing students to bacteria through air vents, according to a lawsuit filed by a former health school dean at Malcolm X College.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Unidentified "decomposing" human corpses were stored at several City Colleges of Chicago campuses, a new lawsuit alleges.

And when the macabre issue was brought to light by Micah Young, then-dean of Health and Sciences Career Programs at Malcolm X College, he was unjustly fired, he alleges in the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court. […]

The bizarre and grisly discovery of four human bodies stored in boxes at Malcolm X was made by Young in June 2014. The lawsuit alleges there are eight other bodies "rotting" at other city colleges.

According to the lawsuit, Young’s investigation determined that unidentified corpses had been stored in the college since 2003.

"Countless employees, students and other visitors of Malcolm X College have been and are continued to be exposed, through the air vents, to bacteria and germs from decaying human bodies," the lawsuit said.

The nonprofit that manages the program that provides colleges with corpses for research purposes said it "couldn’t find any missing or unidentified bodies," the lawsuit said.

"According to our records, all the specimens we provided to them are accounted for," Paul Dudek, executive vice president of the Anatomical Gift Association of Illinois, told the Chicago Sun-Times.