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Students touring morgue shocked to see friend's brain in a jar

 
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Students touring morgue shocked to see friend's brain in a jar
The deceased was in a car accident. Why ... ?

Parents shocked to learn examiner kept son's brain
By Sabriya Rice, CNN Medical Producer
October 27, 2010 1:43 p.m. EDT

(CNN) -- Andre and Korisha Shipley were still mourning the death of their 17-year-old son, Jesse, when two months after his funeral, they received shocking news from students of the same Staten Island, New York, high school Jesse had attended. Members of a forensic science club on a field trip to the morgue couldn't believe what they noticed on a cabinet in the medical examiner's lab.

"They saw this jar with a brain in it labeled Jesse Shipley," recalls Korisha Shipley, whose daughter Shannon came home in tears that day delivering the news. "They knew Jesse and he knew them. They were looking at his brain, and his brain was looking right back at them," the father adds.

Jesse Shipley died in a car accident in January 2005, and the family members say that even though they agreed to an autopsy, they thought they were burying their son with all of his organs. To them, the cause of death was obvious - blunt trauma resulting from a car accident - so there was no reason for authorities to have kept the brain for further review.

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The Shipleys' attorney, Marvin Ben Aron, says not only the brain, but parts of the liver and testes were later returned and buried in a small casket with their son's body. He says handling the remains was the most traumatizing aspect for the family.

"For them, whenever they remember their child, part of their memory is holding a jar of organs in their hands that they never should have known existed," he explains. He is hoping for a settlement during their October 27 court date.
"I feel bad for those people who found out in the past and even worse for those who never will," Andre Shipley says. "We buried our son, and then two months after we had chunks of him coming back to us. This is not the way it's supposed to be."
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