The police prosecutor Sen Const Melissa Sambrooks said Kinman was not present when the dogs regurgitated the remains, but searched a wheelie bin looking for the toes.
“She located two human toes and took them home and placed them in a jar containing formaldehyde,” Sambrooks said.
Police found Kinman was a member of the “Bone Buddies Australia” Facebook group, commonly used to buy, swap and sell specimens online.
Sambrooks said Kinman was an avid contributor to the site and had previously sold “wet specimens” of a stillborn kitten and puppy. It was not revealed where those remains were sourced.
Taxidermy is far from illegal. It’s not “Human Bone Buddies Australia”, it’s just “Bone Buddies Australia” and I’d expect anything from horse hooves to kangaroo skulls and ballsacks and whatnot. I forgot what the regulations are for human parts though, I think they have changed over the past decade or so but I’ve studied in at least two places that had real human remains as well as a vast collection of animal remains.
What she did was very, very stupid though.