This would have been the perfect macabre Halloween story – if only it came out last week.

Apparently the president of a Syracuse mortuary school, a licensed funeral director, subjected numerous female students to sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination.  The school was sued by the state Attorney General, and just settled the case for $30,000, and according to central New York’s Post-Standard, it has announced that “[i]t will close after educating its current students.”

The AG’s complaint alleged that the director’s harassment and discrimination consisted of touching a female student’s thigh; kissing, hugging and touching female students; repeatedly stating that women are good workers “until they get pregnant;” and maintaining a policy of barring pregnant students and teachers from certain activities despite medical clearance.

To make matters more macabre, no doubt to the horror of the students, he simulated sex on a body in the embalming room.

And to make matters even more bizarre, he asked a student if she was a virgin, and when she told him that she was, this funeral director said “What a waste of life.”

You can’t make this stuff up!