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A young doctor who admitted stealing a cadaver hand as a medical student, then giving it to a stripper he befriended, was set to be sentenced on Thursday.

Ahmed Rashed, 26, pleaded guilty earlier this month to a reduced charge of third-degree theft.

He gave the hand to Linda Kay, 31, during one of his visits to the club where she worked. He got to know the exotic dancer while he was a first-year medical student in 2002. She wanted a cadaver's hand, authorities said, and he complied.

Authorities said the hand was found in a jar on Kay's dresser in her South Plainfield home last summer. Friends have said she called it "Freddy."

The doctor's attorney, Kalman Geist, said he removed the hand from a fully dissected cadaver at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark that was scheduled for cremation, and was unaware that what he did was illegal. He graduated in 2005 and is now in his third year of residency at a Los Angeles hospital.

Rashed will be prohibited from seeking a license to practice medicine in New Jersey while he is on probation.

Middlesex County Assistant Prosecutor Judson Hamlin said he will recommend five years of probation.

lets try it out kris cut off ur hand and give it to me

why would it be illegal to have a hand? i mean like if the family of the person didn't know then i could see why you could go to court about it. but like if its someone you know does it really matter? confused