{"id":11906,"date":"2026-06-15T14:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/11906\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T14:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:33:07","slug":"34-fetuses-found-in-polish-doctors-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/11906\/","title":{"rendered":"34 fetuses found in Polish doctor\u2019s garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A Polish doctor has been taken into custody after 34 human fetuses were found buried in the garden of her former home, the authorities said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Magdalena H. \u2013 a 57-year-old medical pathologist with no previous criminal record \u2013 is suspected of using the fetuses to perform experiments and now faces up to 12 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Her case has whipped up a storm in traditionally Catholic Poland, with many questioning how she managed to obtain the unborn babies\u2019 bodies in a country with some of the strictest abortion laws in Europe.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But a spokesman for the prosecutor\u2019s office said that there is so far no evidence she had obtained the fetuses through illegal abortions.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The charges against the doctor include desecrating corpses, improper waste handling and abandoning hazardous materials in an unauthorised location.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Anti-abortionists protest in Warsaw, Poland in 2024. A spokesman for the prosecutor\u2019s office said that there is so far no evidence Magdalena H. had obtained the fetuses through illegal abortions. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/06\/15\/a1f26049-a5a1-4e75-8a6f-4fd98076e701_453e4624.jpg\" title=\"Anti-abortionists protest in Warsaw, Poland in 2024. A spokesman for the prosecutor\u2019s office said that there is so far no evidence Magdalena H. had obtained the fetuses through illegal abortions. Photo: AFP\"\/>Anti-abortionists protest in Warsaw, Poland in 2024. A spokesman for the prosecutor\u2019s office said that there is so far no evidence Magdalena H. had obtained the fetuses through illegal abortions. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Last week, prosecutors in southeastern Poland were tipped off that medical waste had been discovered during construction work in her former house in the southeastern village of Lutoryz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Polish doctor has been taken into custody after 34 human fetuses were found buried in the garden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8688,8687,74,8689,8691,8690,9,1385,8692,8195],"class_list":["post-11906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-poland","tag-covid-19-pandemic","tag-district-prosecutors-office-in-rzeszow","tag-europe","tag-krzysztof-ciechanowski","tag-lutoryz","tag-magdalena-h","tag-poland","tag-polish","tag-radio-eska","tag-rzeszow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}