Teen Mom Lexi Tatman’s funeral director mentor arrested for ‘stealing organs’ from dead bodies- ‘including her grandpa’
FORMER Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant star Lexi Tatman’s funeral director mentor has been arrested for “stealing organs” from corpses, including the star’s grandfather.
Megan Hess, the woman who inspired Lexi to be a funeral home director and even helped throw her baby shower, was arrested on Tuesday.
Megan, along with her mother Shirley Koch, was charged with nine counts of fraud and illegally transporting diseased cadavers, as some corpses tested positive for diseases and were shipped without required warnings.
Lexi, 20, tweeted of the charges: “Huge win today. If y’all remember I posted awhile ago about the funeral home that was selling body parts illegally and had sold my grandpa.
“Well her and her mom got arrested today. They’re looking at a ton of serious charges and time.”
Lexi first tweeted about the situation in November 2018.
She claimed “This local funeral director has handled 3 of my family members. She hosted my baby shower as well. She also had an influence on my future as a funeral director.
“A few months ago there was a story of her by [Reuters]. They claimed she sold ‘donated’ body parts illegally. We were suspicious that she had sold my papa because we agreed to donate life.
“There was a FBI report and investigation into her funeral home and what they found was horrific. What was such a crazy idea turned out to be reality.”
Lexi continued to allege: “She was taking the deceased that had agreed to donate tissues and organs and be cremated, and selling their body parts to the black market and illegally.
“The FBI were able to tell us what had been sold. It was not what we agreed to donate.
"We were outraged and almost certain we didn’t have our grandpa’s cremated remains.”
According to the indictment obtained by The Sun: "Remains would be sold for purposes not contemplated by the families; and body parts beyond those which were authorized, if not entire bodies, would be sold.
“In each of these instances, the families would not have authorized donation had they been informed of what would actually be done with their loved one’s remains.”
The court papers claim hundreds of bodies were used for broker services.
The Defendants pled not guilty to the charges.
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Lexi, who shares two sons with boyfriend Kyler, was fired from Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant after season one because of her drama-free storyline.
She was replaced with Rachel Beaver and Kaiya Elliott.
But the cast shakeup didn’t help the series, as The Sun exclusively reported the show has been canceled.
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