I said no touching

Exotic dancer to plead not guilty, attorney says
The Star Legger

The exotic dancer arrested last week for keeping a severed hand and six human skulls in her South Plainfield home will plead not guilty to charges of improper disposition of human remains, her attorney said today.

Linda E. Kay, 31, remains in custody at the Middlesex County jail in North Brunswick in lieu of $100,00 bail, Donald Digioia said.

Kay skipped her arraignment last Wednesday, and was captured two days later when her father lured her to his Scotch Plains home, then handed her over to a bail bondsman.

"She denies her guilt, and asserts her innocence," Digioia said. "She became portrayed as the skull girl, when she is actually a gentle human being."

Police officers were dispatched to the South Plainfield house July 21 to investigate reports of a man threatening suicide with a hammer and instead made the gruesome find.

Human skulls can be purchased legally online, but police are investigating where she got the hand.

Contributed by Suleman Din