They are juicy : Princeton professor is slammed for disrespecting the bones of a 14-year-old black girl killed by a bomb dropped by Philadelphia police in 1985 after members of her commune fired at cops
Janet Monge, a visiting professor at Princeton University, led a highly-rated free course on forensic anthropology for the prestigious school
In one video lecture, she is seen holding the bones of a child killed during a 1985 police bombing of a black liberation group and calling them juicy
The teen and 10 other people - including five children - died after Philadelphia Police dropped a bomb from a helicopter onto a home being used by the liberation group MOVE
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Passed-around remains of Philadelphia MOVE bombing victim spur controversy
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By Craig R. McCoy, The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)
PHILADELPHIA More than 35 years after 11 bodies were found in the rubble of the MOVE rowhouse, new questions have emerged over how two universities treated the remains of one victim.
The remains, never conclusively identified, were turned over to a University of Pennsylvania professor by an official investigative commission for additional forensic examination shortly after the 1985 disaster on Osage Avenue. Ever since, the material has been shuttled back and forth between Penn and Princeton University.
The remains a pelvic bone and part of a femur were initially subjected to detailed analysis by Penn anthropology professor Alan Mann and kept at the Penn Museum.
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Mike Africa Jr. met his parents in prison. In fact, he was born in a cell. For most of his life, he did all he could to get his mother,
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