Kristen Parker worked in a hospital surgical unit dedicated to saving lives – but she soon became the patients’ worst nightmare.
The heartless 27-year-old medical technician exposed thousands to a devastating disease – which could spell agony and even death for those who put their lives in her hands.
Parker, a secret drug addict, was stealing syringes containing the painkiller fentanyl – 100 times more powerful than heroin – and replacing them with saline-filled syringes she’d used to shoot up.
And all the time, she knew she had highly contagious hepatitis C – which can cause cirrhosis, liver cancer and even death.
In a controversial plea bargain, Parker, who sentenced patients to a life of torment, received 20 years behind bars.
Thousands exposed to her evil in Colorado, New York and Texas hospitals have been forced to take blood tests to find out if they have the disease.
Already 75 have tested positive for hepatitis C because of Parker’s dirty syringes.
“I have some relatives who want to wring this lady’s neck,” declares 71-year-old Crosby Powell, one of Parker’s hepatitis C victims.
“But you don’t take the law in your hands. The Bible teaches you to forgive, but this hurts.”
Furious patients are asking how this addict could so easily get her hands on the drug dozens of times over the six months she worked at Rose Medical Center in Denver.
Incredibly, the hospital disclosed that Parker tested positive for hepatitis C in a pre-employment blood test. But employment law prevented the hospital from discriminating against her.
Powell says he was rocked when he got the news that he had hepatitis C – thanks to Parker. “I don’t do drugs, drink or smoke. I was shocked. I broke down.”
When cops busted the out-of-control medical technician, she was finally forced to confront the enormity of her crime – and the life sentence of suffering she’d handed out to countless patients.
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