A Texas woman has been charged with abusing a corpse, accused of using a scalpel to castrate the body of a registered sex offender last month, officials said.
Amber Paige Laudermilk, 34, was employed as an embalmer at Memorial Mortuary & Crematory in Houston when, authorities allege, she mutilated the body of Charles Roy Rodriguez, 58, in February, Harris County Precinct One Constable Alan Rosen
said in a statement Monday.
Rodriguez was a registered sex offender and was charged with sexual assault in 2001. He died of natural causes at a Houston hospital in January, the statement said.
Charging documents identify two employees of Memorial Mortuary & Crematory at the scene who witnessed the crime. Authorities said the first witness saw Laudermilk stab Rodriguez twice in the groin in the cremation room before she cut off his penis and placed it in his mouth.
Laudermilk told the first witness, who is an embalming student, "You didn’t see anything," in a manner that the witness "perceived to be as threatening," the documents said.
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