Lending a Hand to a Friend

Justice Takes a Hand as Former Student Pleads Guilty in Macabre Theft

A medical doctor pleaded guilty today to removing a hand from a cadaver at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in 2002, when he was a medical student there, and giving the purloined appendage to a nude dancer who had a fondness for the macabre. According to the Associated Press, Ahmed Rashed, who now practices medicine in Los Angeles, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge that will prevent him from obtaining a medical license in New Jersey during a period of probation.

In short, he stole a hand, and they slapped him on the wrist.