The University of North Texas Health Science Center will stop accepting unclaimed bodies following an NBC News investigation that documented how the Fort Worth program cut up and leased out the remains of poor people for training and research without consent from the dead or their families.
The move was prompted, she said, by documents uncovered while responding to reporters’ public-records requests about the center’s Willed Body Program.
Among the revelations were “a lack of sufficient controls and oversight” of how outside companies handled and used corpses provided by the Health Science Center.
Trent-Adams said leadership had been unaware that the body program was routinely shipping unclaimed remains — including those of U.S. military veterans — across state lines.
The NBC News investigation published Monday found the center had received about 2,350 unclaimed bodies from Tarrant and Dallas counties in the past five years.
Persons:
Sylvia Trent, Adams, ” Trent, Tim O’Hare, ”
Organizations:
University of North Texas Health Science, NBC News, Fort Worth, Health Science Center . Trent, NBC, Science
Locations:
U.S, Tarrant, Dallas, Tarrant County