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Lab theft undetected in move
Stolen fetuses found in bayou
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TURKEY CREEK, La. — A box
containing six miscarried fetuses
and other human tissue taken from a
medical laboratory was found next
to a central Louisiana bayou by a
startled woman who described one
of the forms as doll-like.
“It looked like a doll — but it
couldn’t be, because it had a navel
cord and they wouldn’t have a doll
like that,” said Brenda Johnson, 20,
who reported the find to the
Evangeline Parish sheriffs office
Friday. “Then I saw another one,
. not quite as old. ”
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Deputies said the box was taken
from Acadiana Medical Laboratories
in Opelousas, La., during the past
week. The lab moved to new offices
during that time and the theft went
undetected until the box and its
surprising contents were discov
ered.
“It was apparently taken for drugs
or something and they missed the
ball on that one,” said Dan Marcan-
tel, a sheriff s department detective.
He said the most fully developed
fetuses were five to six months old.
The discovery was made about 40
miles south of Alexandria, La.
Dr. Ronald Padgett, director of
the laboratory, said his firm per
formed pathological analysis on
fetuses and other body parts for a
number of hospitals. He said a
check of laboratory inventory after
the box was found revealed no other
part of a human liver and containers
of bodily fluids, Marcantel said. All
were returned to the laboratory.
“When the tissue is removed
(during surgery) we analyze it and
keep it a period of time and then we
incinerate it,” Padgett said. He said
tests had been completed on all the
specimens in the box.
Padgett refused to comment on
the sheriffs department’s specula
tion that thieves seeking drugs were
the culprits.
The time of the theft could not be
pinpointed, but Marcantel said the
box was observed as early as Thurs
day by Johnson’s mothei, although
the contents was not known at the
time.
specimens were missing.
“I’m sure it’s just a freak thing as
sociated with the moving,” Padgett
said. “Our doors are locked and pad
locked, and you usually don’t antici
pate something like this occurring. ”
Other objects in the box included
“Nothing was decomposed be
cause all the tissues and fetuses
were placed in al'edhol,” Marcantel
said. He described the dump site as
“just a bayou bridge in the middle of
nowhere.”
Padgett said his laboratory kept
specimens for varying periods of
time depending on their nature.
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DENVER — The Episcopal
Church’s two-week General Con
vention opened Sunday with more
than 1,000 bishops and lay leaders
scheduled to discuss issues ranging
from ordination of homosexuals to a
major revision in the church’s Book
of Common Prayer.
More than 300 resolutions,
memorials and petitions have been
submitted for consideration by the
more than 150 bishops and 900 lay
and clerical deputies at the gather
ing, the first such convention in
three years.
The convention’s task will be to
lay the direction, set the budget and
elect officials to carry out the
church’s work for the next three
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dination of homosexual clergymen
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sial and a spokesman predicted
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ters would be considered early.
Presiding over the House of
Bishops will be Bishop John M.
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over the House of Deputies, com
posed of clergy and elected lay per
sons from throughout the United
States, Europe and missionary dio
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A study on the issue of ordaining
homosexuals to the ministry was or
dered at the last convention meet
ing in Minneapolis in 1976 and the
panel, chaired by Bishop Robert
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