Charges Dropped Against Embalmer Accused of Mutilating Sex Offender’s Corpse
Last year, FAC reported on the disturbing case of a Texas embalmer accused of mutilating the corpse of a deceased registrant. According to investigators, the embalmer allegedly castrated the body and stuffed the severed penis into the corpse’s mouth. Prosecutors alleged the conduct was intentional, criminal, and deeply abusive.
This week, however, the criminal charges against the embalmer were dismissed.
According to reports, prosecutors ultimately dismissed the charges after the woman took a “class”. A class?!?! The message sent to the public is that when the target is a registered sex offender, even grotesque acts of vigilantism are often met with shrugs, jokes, or outright approval.
If the victim had been anyone else, the outrage would be immediate and universal. But because the deceased person was on the registry, much of the public reaction instead bordered on celebration. Suggesting he “deserved it”.
This was a crime. Period! Once we begin excusing crimes because we dislike the victim, we erode the very principles that separate a lawful society from mob justice.
What makes this case concerning is how normalized these attitudes have become toward people on the registry. Society has increasingly accepted vigilantism, harassment, banishment, threats, unwarranted termination of employment, homelessness, and violence directed at registrants as somehow understandable or deserved. In most cases, crimes committed against registrants are not investigated, minimized, mocked, or treated as less serious because of who the victim was.
FAC has long warned about the dangers of dehumanization. Once society accepts the idea that certain people are no longer entitled to dignity, rights, or protection under the law, it becomes easier to justify increasingly extreme conduct against them. History repeatedly shows where that road leads.
The law must apply equally, or it ultimately protects no one at all.
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In my opinion, dehumanizing labels are part of the problem.
Calling a human being a “predator” is implying that they are an uncontrollable, ravenous animal.
And the fact that this label (“predator”) is sanctioned under color of law is deeply disturbing!
It is neither scientific nor useful.
ONE statement, what if it was the embalmers loved one’s body who was mutilated? Sometimes justice is given to the wrong party. If it hadn’t been a registered person mutilated, there would be protest all over the place. But because the body was from an “Un-desirable”, it didn’t matter? What happened to the chant of “All lives matter”, or is that just for “Some” lives?
Shakes my head and looks at the ground.
So if all it takes is one class to dismiss this behavior, then why is there nearly a million still on the hit list that have completely therapy? 🤔
He license should be called into question. That’s the behavior of a sociopath.
The people who celebrated this should be put on a list. Please do cite references so we can out them ourselves.
This woman should have lost her license because of unprofessional conduct. If she is unable to conduct herself in a manner that is caring and impartial to all deceased individuals and representative of the industry she has no business doing this job.