34 human foetuses are found buried in a garden after ‘female doctor used them for experiments’ at her home in Poland
A Polish doctor who conducted home experiments on more than 30 unborn babies before burying them in his backyard is facing 12 years in prison.
Magdalena H., whose surname is withheld under Polish privacy laws, was arrested at a Polish hotel early Friday morning after construction workers carrying out renovations alerted police to the gruesome discovery.
Police raided the 5-acre property in the picturesque village of Lutoryz in southeastern Poland over the weekend.
Horrified locals watched as hundreds of officers scoured the area using ground-penetrating radar and cadaver dogs.
Prosecutors said police discovered the remains of 34 fetuses buried among thousands of microscopic slides, documents and paraffin blocks used to preserve human tissue.
Prosecutor’s spokesman Krzysztof Ciechanowski said the medical equipment was most likely used by the detained woman, a pathologist by profession, to perform tests.
He added that the 57-year-old woman said in her official statement that she ‘brought the fetuses found on her property and buried them’.
According to local media reports, Magdalena had taken the fetuses from a local hospital during the Covid quarantine and used them for medical research at home.
Magdalena H., whose surname is withheld under Polish privacy laws, was arrested at a hotel in Poland
Prosecutors said police discovered the remains of 34 fetuses buried among thousands of microscopic slides, documents and blocks of paraffin.
Construction workers carrying out renovation work alerted police to the gruesome discovery
It was stated that the doctor put the bodies in sacks and buried them on the land of the house he sold two years ago.
It is said that he then put the remains in sacks and buried them on the land of the house he sold two years ago.
His case caused a storm in traditionally Catholic Poland, with many questioning how he obtained the bodies of unborn babies in a country with the strictest abortion laws in Europe.
However, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office said there was so far no evidence that the fetuses were obtained through illegal abortion.
According to the Fakt newspaper, the doctor had a good reputation in the professional community.
Before moving to Lutoryz, he worked at a local hospital in the nearby city of Rzeszów.
However, after selling the village property last year, she returned to Rzeszów to live with her mother.
An expert in the examination of human tissue and remains, Magdalena also performed tests and procedures for medical facilities as part of her work.
He has now been detained for three months while investigations continue.
Prosecutor’s spokesman Ciechanowski said: ‘This investigation is at a very early stage. We still have a lot of work ahead of us.
‘Investigations are ongoing and more people are being questioned to get the fullest possible picture of the whole incident.’
The charges against the doctor include desecrating corpses, improper handling of waste and dumping hazardous substances without permission.
The prosecutor’s spokesman said at a press conference that after hearing the charges, the doctor did not admit guilt, but “stated that he brought and buried human fetuses and other medical waste found on his property.”
The fetuses have not yet been identified and it is not yet known whether Magdalena acted alone.
