Hand Stealer Free on Bail

A doctor in New Brunswick, New Jersey, has been charged with stealing a hand from a medical school cadaver and giving it to an exotic dancer with an apparent body parts fetish.

Ahmed Rashed, a 2005 graduate of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, was charged this week after voluntarily returning from Los Angeles, where he is in a residency program, said his lawyer, Hassen Abdellah.

Rashed, 26, is free on $1,000 bail.

The dancer, Linda Kay, kept the hand in a jar of formaldehyde in her bedroom. Friends have said she called the hand "Freddy."

Police discovered the hand, along with six human skulls, at Kay's home in July, after being called there on a report that a roommate was suicidal. The roommate was not home, but Kay was.