Legal Opinion
Laurie Range v. Kenneth Douglas
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 15, 2014No. 12-3857, 12-4190, 12-4192PublishedCited by 385 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JANE B. STRANCH, Circuit Judge.
These cases arose when the family members of murdered young women discovered that the bodies of their loved ones had been sexually abused. Kenneth Douglas, a former morgue attendant for the Hamilton County Morgue, sexually abused an untold number of bodies while he was drunk or high and on duty at the morgue. Three of the bodies Douglas sexually abused belonged to family members of Plaintiffs. Plaintiffs sued Douglas himself, who was convicted of the crime of gross abuse of a corpse, but the civil claims against him are not part of these appeals.…
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