5 nurses and a doctor in libya gave 400 children HIV ON PURPOSE. do they deserve the death penalty?

Catherine E: VT

Yes. Without question.

samssculptures

I say that I smell a rat . Why would health professionals do such ? Libya is not noted for its clear thinking.

aka DarthDad

A team of independent French scientists determined that the children acquired the AIDS virus before the Nurses arrived.

This happened because of the lax sterilization protocols and the use of dirty needles by the Libyan staff.

Someone should be held resposible, but not the Florence Nightingales who were doing good work in a backwater country.

Rather than take responsibility for this tragedy, the Libyan government decided to blame foreigners so they would not have to pay any court costs or have certain administrators and politicians take the blame.

Those baastards even allowed a couple of the nurses to be torotured to extract false testimony and false confessions.

That is why we always have to check sources and not go flying off the handle before we know the facts....

And I am no bleeding heart, if someone killed my kid, i would want the death penalty too, but not against an innocent.

Blue Steel & Lace

There was scientific evidence given at trial that the victims were already infected with HIV before being seen by the Bulgarian doctor and four nurses.

beetlejuice49423

You need to get your facts straight--it has been determined that the children were exposed to HIV long before that doctor and those nurses arrives, that is why their death penalty is being hailed as unwarranted....they aren't guilty and the government is trying to get the verficts set aside for that reason....

kissmybum

They didn't do it....very poor working conditions.

chris_w conga

Well....let me start at it is illegal and they could have life and since HIV is so misjudged it's really hard to say what should be done and it also depends on the purpose. HIV has been noted that in 13 of the population that has it and that they don't have AIDS developed EVER.

graciegirl

they should be infected with HIV and let them suffer as do those 400 babies

Najib

Yes,They deserve death,But it will not happen because libya's goverment is weak in international system!So ..It's danger doing this .

lostgurl2109

IF this act was on purpose of course the nurses and the doctor deserve the death penalty, these children are going to die now. What about how innocent they are and helpless...

The nurses and doctor need to face the crimes they have committed. I believe that if this cruel act was not on purpose they should still face some consequence because innocent children are going to die now. Who was the MD? Maybe the Medical Director should be tried for something too. Someone was slacking.

Art

Well personally speaking I don't think two wrongs make a right-so I'm against the death penalty-but surely (if they intentionally did this)they should be sentenced to life in prison without any chance in hell of ever getting out-But if they did this: What was the motivation-was there a larger entity behind it?

mattinhoustontx

I think that if they are guilty, then hell yeah they deserve to die. I think the condemnation is based on the lack of evidence (I'm not 100% about that, but what I understood is that the US and EU were calling it "scapegoating"). Some people believe that the children in question already had HIV. Really sad either way.

bob h

IF they are guilty, they should be injected daily with the AIDS virus until they are HIV Positive, & forced to spend the rest of their lives in prison. The death penalty is too easy for them.

I believe the death penalty should be used very sparingly in cases where there is no doubt of guilt.

Susie D

The genetics of the HIV that infected those children has shown that they acquired it before the nurses and the physician undertook caring for them.
Libya does not have a modern medical system, and they lack the basic asceptic setting that most of us would consider acceptable. If not for their lack proper health care the foreign nurses and doctors would have never been there in the first place.
I think it's a disgrace to take out the problems of THEIR country on the people who went their to help. If this is allowed to continue then health care workers with the skills these poor countries need will not go, and they will not help. How many will die then?
How about they spend a little less time trying to blame the nurses and the doctor, and a little more time trying to fix the problems in their health care system. Think of all the money they have wasted incarcerating these people and trying them that could have been used to provide proper medical care to the people in their country.
This is Libya folks, not exactly the mecca of "honesty and modernization"!

oldmanwitastick

They should be infected and then imprisoned for life.

alessa_sunderland

"If" they did it, karma will bite them in the a**. The death penalty would be the easy way out. They should be put in prison and forced to do "hard labor" for the rest of their lives.

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