When you turn a profit on dead children’s organs, it’s hard to let them live, I understand. The people who are destroying this earth have names, addresses, families, homes and jobs. The first organ scandal broke in Bristol in 1998 when it became clear that staff at the hospital had been keeping hearts following surgery at the hospital. The scandal at Alder Hey emerged almost accidentally when heart specialist Professor Robert Anderson revealed at a separate official inquiry into heart surgery at Bristol that a store of children's hearts was kept at Alder Hey. And in September it was announced that Birmingham's Diana Princess of Wales Children's Hospital and the Alder Hey Children's Hospital, in Liverpool, had been harvesting organs and tissues from the babies who died at their hospitals. #PaybackIsABitch #KarmaIsTheGreatEqualizer The same two hospitals that last week were caught up in the cash for tissues row, which revealed that both the Birmingham and Liverpool hospitals had given Thymus glands, removed during heart surgery from live children, to a pharmaceutical company for research. They then received cash donations from the company involved. It became apparent that organ harvesting at Alder Hey had been such an established practice that even parents whose children had died decades ago found that organs had been removed before the bodies were released to the families. And worried parents who had not given consent for their childrens' organs to be used jammed Alder Hey hospital's switchboard demanding to know whether their child was involved. It now appears that even when the hospital told parents that organs were missing from the bodies of their dead children that some parents were still not given the whole truth.