PITTSBURGH -The first day of the second week of the public corruption trial of famed forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht focused on the grotesque testimony of a former top aide to the accused. According to former deputy coroner Dave Corbett, the body of an unidentified man was stuffed with candy and used as a piñata by sugar-crazed children at the Coroner’s Office Family Picnic on orders of Dr Wecht.
Corbett told jurors that when he objected to the macabre spectacle, on the grounds he felt it was in poor taste, Dr. Wecht laughed. Corbett said Dr. Wecht told him “that will be for the kids to decide.”
