Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White says black market body part brokering will not happen again, under proposed legislation he expects lawmakers to approve, after a father and son duo was charged in a federal case in April.
Families whose loved ones wanted to donate their bodies to science for medical research to help others instead learned their family members’ body parts were sold to the highest bidder.
They trusted staff at the now shuttered Biological Resource Center of Illinois. The center’s owner and operator father and son duo is now facing federal charges for brokering diseased body parts.
White says the heartbreak shared by families statewide will not be in vain.
