A federal judge has denied a request for compassionate release from a former traveling medical technician who was convicted of infecting dozens of patients with hepatitis C, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Hampshire.
David, 41, worked as a medical technician at hospitals in several states. Court documents show he was sentenced in 2013 to 39 years in prison after admitting he stole painkillers meant for surgical patients and replaced them with syringes filled with saline that had been tainted with his own blood. Federal prosecutors say 46 people were infected with the same strain of hepatitis C that he carried, and one patient from Kansas later died.
Investigators in New Hampshire began looking into David after an outbreak of hepatitis C at Exeter Hospital in 2012. He was arrested that July. In August 2013 he pleaded guilty to eight counts of tampering with a consumer product and eight counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud.
Earlier this year, David filed a motion asking to be released from prison early. He argued that his medical conditions put him at high risk of becoming seriously ill if he caught COVID 19.
At a hearing Thursday in federal court in Concord, U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante denied the motion. The judge described the crimes as extremely cruel and callous and said the COVID 19 risk did not justify releasing David after he had served about nine years of his sentence.
In a statement, Acting U.S. Attorney John Farley said he was grateful the court rejected the request and that the case caused harm to dozens of victims across multiple states.
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