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A Spanish anaesthesiologist, who infected 275 people with Hepatits C was sentenced to 1933 years in jail. I wonder how much he'll serve...he's 65 now. He'd be 1998 years when his sentence is up.

Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070515/wl_afp/spaintrialhealth_070515125706)

MADRID (AFP) - A Spanish court Tuesday handed down an almost 2,000-year jail term to an anaesthetist found guilty of infecting 275 patients with the Hepatitis C virus, four of whom died.

Juan Maeso, 65, a former chief anaesthetist at the La Fe de Valence maternity unit in eastern Spain, will in effect serve a maximum 20 years in prison, as per Spanish law.

The former doctor, who was a drug addict and a Hepatitis C carrier, was found guilty of infecting 275 people in four hospitals in the Valencia region between 1988 and 1997, after a trial which opened in September 2005.

As well as the prison term for injury and manslaughter, he was also ordered to pay compensation totalling nearly one million euros.

Maeso contaminated his victims by using syringes on patients which he had already used himself to inject drugs.

In 1997, amid a sharp rise in Hepatitis C cases, doctors at two health insurance companies requested a check on sterilisation procedures in the private clinic where Maeso worked.

In April 1998, public authorities began a procedure against the anaesthetist for opiate consumption and suspended him.

Hepatitis C is a blood-borne viral infection that can cause severe liver damage. Although many patients can recover quickly from it, people can also die from the related consequences of long-term liver damage.

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Welcome to a world without the death penalty.

It doesn't give the victims' their lives back.

Welcome to a world without the death penalty.
Yup,

This is why I support the death penalty.

Welcome to a world without the death penalty.

Because obviously he got off lightly. A mere 2000 years? Pfff...

It doesn't give the victims' their lives back.

nothing will

Welcome to a world without the death penalty.

not even death penalty, what would that help?

Yup,

This is why I support the death penalty.

because death penalty gives back the lost lives? oh no, it won't...

Execution is the coward's way out.

Welcome to a world without the death penalty.

A world where people who are dead remain dead and there is no bringing them back. Coming soon to a theater near you.

A Spanish anaesthesiologist, who infected 275 people with Hepatits C was sentenced to 1933 years in jail. I wonder how much he'll serve...he's 65 now. He'd be 1998 years when his sentence is up.

Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070515/wl_afp/spaintrialhealth_070515125706)



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Lolz. That's fucking hilarious.

...will in effect serve a maximum 20 years in prison, as per Spanish law.

They give him an almost 2,000 year sentence, but he will only serve 20 years?
He killed 4 people..20 years is a joke.

They give him an almost 2,000 year sentence, but he will only serve 20 years?
He killed 4 people..20 years is a joke.

He's 65, 20 years is practically the rest of his life.

Not to mention the fact he still has to pay over a million euros.

He's 65, 20 years is practically the rest of his life.

Not to mention the fact he still has to pay over a million euros.

So?
How would they make him pay the money? Throw him in jail?

What possessed this guy to infect all those people with Hep C? What, was he bored one day? Nothing on the tele?

Lolz. That's fucking hilarious.

4 people dead and 271 infected with hepatitis isn't what I would call comedic.

I never did understand the logic behind these sentences of thousands of years...
Could someone please explain it to me?

I never did understand the logic behind these sentences of thousands of years...
Could someone please explain it to me?

i assume its the total for all the crimes, multiplied by the victimes.

I never did understand the logic behind these sentences of thousands of years...
Could someone please explain it to me?

I think the idea is that now he'll never get out of jail. It's the same thing when they sentance a person to multiple life sentences.

What possessed this guy to infect all those people with Hep C? What, was he bored one day? Nothing on the tele?

he was addicted to morphine, he injected part to himself (while he had hepatitis C) and then injected the remains into the patients (wich he infected that way). He was trying to hide his habbit i guess. I wonder why this wasn't noticed before, i mean, almost 300 infected with the same disease at the same hospital...? wtf ? why didn't nobody notice after 20 victims?

I never did understand the logic behind these sentences of thousands of years...
Could someone please explain it to me?

Multiple instances and crimes with their punishments stacked up.

Lets give an example :D
I rob someone with a deadly weapon which has a minimum sentence of 5 years (or about that...)
I then after that crime but before being caught rape someone which has a sentence of 15 years or more.

I get convicted on both and have a total prison sentence of 20 years+

So when you commit a lot of crimes and lots of instances, those sentences and convictions stack up.

he was addicted to morphine, he injected part to himself (while he had hepatitis C) and then injected the remains into the patients (wich he infected that way). He was trying to hide his habbit i guess. I wonder why this wasn't noticed before, i mean, almost 300 infected with the same disease at the same hospital...? wtf ? why didn't nobody notice after 20 victims?

I suppose it was quite spread out over several years. But still, I agree, you'd notice a sharp increase in hep C, and the fact it all came from the same hospital.

A world where people who are dead remain dead and there is no bringing them back. Coming soon to a theater near you.
Surely you missed Mikeburg's thread. That isn't as true as you think it is.

I suppose it was quite spread out over several years. But still, I agree, you'd notice a sharp increase in hep C, and the fact it all came from the same hospital.

i guess that's how they finaly got him, but it's still looks quite long, although i don't know what the exact circumstances were, and i also don't have a lot of experience with hospitals or hepatitis C.

i guess that's how they finaly got him, but it's still looks quite long, although i don't know what the exact circumstances were, and i also don't have a lot of experience with hospitals or hepatitis C.

Actually, if you spread 275 people over several years, it's not that many people a year, probably only a small year-on-year increase. Might be why it took them so long to notice.

Actually, if you spread 275 people over several years, it's not that many people a year, probably only a small year-on-year increase. Might be why it took them so long to notice.

i only noticed now that it was over a period of 9 years, so yeah, i can understand why they didn't notice. Not much you can do about that. I think 20(00) years is an apropriate sentence, i haven't even lived that long, i can't imagine how long that would be, probably even worse than deathsentence, but that's just me i guess.

It doesn't give the victims' their lives back.

No but it does keep a murderer off the streets to kill again.

No but it does keep a murderer off the streets to kill again.

So do life sentences. Also, killing the murderer brings you down to their level. You're officially as bad as them. Well done.

hahah...spaniards...:rolleyes:


I feel bad for all those people...thats messed why would someone do something like that?

Yup,

This is why I support the death penalty.

You support it because um... otherwise people will be locked up in a cage for their lives rather than be killed? Does that even make sense?

No but it does keep a murderer off the streets to kill again.

I realise that, but even after justice has been "served" it still doesn't give the victims back their lives. It just ensures that the guilty are served and the future guilty think twice.

I thought the maximum could be 30 years in jail? considering hes 60 something i think that the sentance will be fine

A Spanish anaesthesiologist, who infected 275 people with Hepatits C was sentenced to 1933 years in jail. I wonder how much he'll serve...he's 65 now. He'd be 1998 years when his sentence is up.

Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070515/wl_afp/spaintrialhealth_070515125706)



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The only thing worse than dying in prison is living for 2000 years... in prison. :(

"Vegeta! What does the scouter say about his prison sentence in years?!"

"IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAA--Oh, wait, no. Sorry. It's just two thousand."

"Oh...great...Vegeta?"

"Yeah?"

"I love you, Vegeta."

"And I love you too, Nappa."

:fluffle:

Because obviously he got off lightly. A mere 2000 years? Pfff...

I could do that easily....If i felt like it

Maybe with good behaviour he'll only serve 1500 years or so.

I think the idea is that now he'll never get out of jail. It's the same thing when they sentance a person to multiple life sentences.

Sentence stacking is also often used as a nice way to prevent probation. Even if you qualify for some kinda shock probation to get out early, you have a second sentence and have to start from scratch and earn that probation again.

You know what would be justice? If we had some sort of life-extension treatment, so he is still alive and well in 2000 years. But imagine his mental state after two millenia in the slammer.

We can only wait in wonder for the deft punnery of the British tabloid press to take full charge of this situation.

This is one of the few cases where I MIGHT deploy the death penalty.

You know what would be justice? If we had some sort of life-extension treatment, so he is still alive and well in 2000 years. But imagine his mental state after two millenia in the slammer.

In two thousand years, Spain will probably be part of the Maori Empire :P

Welcome to a world without the death penalty.

How would killing him help?

So?
How would they make him pay the money? Throw him in jail?

Probably by forcibly aquiring his assets.

In two thousand years, Spain will probably be part of the Maori Empire :P

Nah, the Basque region will almost be a seperate country by then.

4 people dead and 271 infected with hepatitis isn't what I would call comedic.

I find the sentence hilarious, not the charges.

It doesn't give the victims' their lives back.

But justice is served.

after the sentance, when they release him, would he come out as a djinn?

"I'm finaly free. Now, to exact my revenge on the world! Muwhahaha!"

I never did understand the logic behind these sentences of thousands of years...
Could someone please explain it to me?

Pussies capitulating to the anti-death penalty crowd.

Juan Maeso, 65, a former chief anaesthetist at the La Fe de Valence maternity unit in eastern Spain, will in effect serve a maximum 20 years in prison, as per Spanish law.
WTF? It should be a minimum of 20 years!

Pussies capitulating to the anti-death penalty crowd.
Countries with the death penalty actually spend more money, don't they?

Yup,

This is why I support the death penalty.

Shit, after that whats the point in putting him in thier for so long just kill him! that's what eventully is going to happen he is going to die or a mob is going to kill him.

Countries with the death penalty actually spend more money, don't they?
For the same reason.