GUILTY NJ - Anthony Merino for raping corpse in morgue, Teaneck, 2008

[RWill1974]

Get ready to hurl your cookies...

Morgue tech admits to sex abuse of 92-year-old woman's corpse

by Russell Ben-Ali/The Star-Ledger Monday May 12, 2008, 4:20 PM


A young laboratory technician accused of sexually abusing the corpse of a 92-year-old woman in a Teaneck hospital morgue pleaded guilty today to desecration of human remains.
Anthony Merino, 25, of Manhattan faces up to seven years in prison when he is sentenced for the second-degree crime on July 11. But under a complicated plea agreement negotiated by his attorney, Savyon Grant, and the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, Merino could file a motion to have his sentence reconsidered and be placed on five years' probation upon serving 11 months, 15 days in prison.
Merino was arrested last October when a security guard observed him engaged in sexual activity with the deceased woman inside a morgue at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck. Merino was a newly employed, part-time lab tech at the hospital at the time.
As part of his plea, Merino agreed to undergo a full psychological evaluation and will be prohibited from working at a hospital, morgue, cemetery or anywhere else where he could come into contact with human remains.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/05/morgue_tech_admits_to_sex_abus.html

 

[absinthe]

I have a feeling this happens more than we would like to believe.

 

[Blink34]

I really need somebody to weigh in that has a psych explanation for this- or is it other?

 

[GlitchWizard]

I really need somebody to weigh in that has a psych explanation for this- or is it other?

This is not your typical store brand of nuts.

 

[philamena]

 

[txsvicki]

Unless this was the freak's first day on the job he's probably raped more corpses besides this poor lady.

 

[mum33004]

why why why????

 

[GlitchWizard]

why why why????

I don't really want him answering that, do you?

 

[Blink34]

This is not your typical store brand of nuts.

Um, yeah, that's what I want to know- why a plea also?
Creepy. That poor family- can u imagine?

 

[Ntegrity]

He'd be damn sorry if that was my mom. :furious:

 

[GlitchWizard]

If I ever doubted that burrial wasn't for me, I'm convinced now.

 

[RWill1974]

Reminds me of a Sam Kinison joke he once did in his standup act. He was saying how he had read an article about a guy who worked at a funeral home who was charging gay men in the area a fee to come in and do their business on the corpses. Kinison was relating the "thoughts" of the dead guy:

"Well Lord, I guess I lived a good, full life. There were some bad times, yes, but I got through them. Now I can just relax and enjoy the eternal afterlife. Wait, a minute...who's this guy?! What's he doing?! OH GOD, NO! NOOOOOO!!!!"

 

[dingo]

Sick B@st@rd.

 

[tempusfugit]

I'm just sickened by this actions, this is really disturbing to me. I can't imagine how the victim's family has been able to deal with this, I know had it been a member of my family this scum would be begging to be locked up!

 

[concernedperson]

I have heard of this before. In the small town I grew up in one family mortuary was considered to be "tainted" by this type of behavior. I knew the younger family members at that time and considered it a horrible possibility. My family has never used that funeral home for any of our family members.

 

[pixies]

I think there is already a thread on this creep. Someone even found his myspace account.

I am betting this thing happens more than we really want to think about.....yuck.

 

[SuziQ]

Steve Huff wrote about this guy when he was first arrested. This guy had a girlfriend. Can you imagine the horror for her, if you know what I mean?

 

[CarpeDiem]

If I ever doubted that burrial wasn't for me, I'm convinced now.

It didn't have anything to do with burial or cremation, her remains hadn't left the hospital yet.

 

[SeriouslySearching]

Sheep, cattle, chickens, picnic tables, corpses...you name it and they will do it if they are freaking sick enough.

Rape of anything has nothing to do with the act, but the control. A corpse is not different in that respect. They can't tell on the abuser and the has the last vile action of control over his victim. It wasn't because she was a sexual attraction for him at 92 yo. It was because he is a sexual predator.

I think they gave him far too light of a sentence for his crime. He isn't going to change, imo. The next time...he will go after a living child or elderly person.

 

[believe09]

Sheep, cattle, chickens, picnic tables, corpses...you name it and they will do it if they are freaking sick enough.

Rape of anything has nothing to do with the act, but the control. A corpse is not different in that respect. They can't tell on the abuser and the has the last vile action of control over his victim. It wasn't because she was a sexual attraction for him at 92 yo. It was because he is a sexual predator.

I think they gave him far too light of a sentence for his crime. He isn't going to change, imo. The next time...he will go after a living child or elderly person.

in many respects, i agree with this, in that i don't think he was attracted to the corpse-and if i were the girlfriend, I would be worried.