The Connecticut Medical Examiner has fired a tech who let her husband get a peek of the body of Newtown massacre madman Adam Lanza before an autopsy, it was reported today.
The Hartford Courant reports that technician Jean Henry was axed April 10 for the breach in lab procedure, which Chief Medical Examiner H. Wayne Carver II blasted as “unprofessional” and which “discredited this agency and the people we serve.”
Henry, who the paper reports made $55,910 a year, had been placed on administrative leave following the Dec. 16 breach, but was let go in a March 27 letter, to take affect April 10.
Lanza shot himself in the head after gunning down 20 children and six adult staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, in a massacre that shocked the nation and spurred new efforts on gun control. Lanza also killed his mother in her home earlier that day.
Two days later, on the morning when the autopsy was to be conducted on the 20-year-old, Henry slipped her husband into a restricted area where bodies are kept, and unzipped a body bag to let her husband get a peek at the killer, the paper reported.
Henry plans to appeal her firing, according to the paper.