1. A person is guilty of abuse of corpse if that person intentionally and unlawfully disinters, digs up, removes, conceals, mutilates or destroys a human corpse or any part or the ashes of a human corpse.
2. It is a defense to prosecution under this section that the actor was a physician, scientist or student who had in that actor's possession, or used human bodies or parts of human bodies lawfully obtained, for anatomical, physiological or other scientific investigation or instruction.
3. Abuse of corpse is a Class D crime.