DENVER (AP) -- A surgery technician who infected three dozen people with hepatitis C after she injected herself with painkiller-filled syringes and replaced them with ones filled with saline has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Kristen Diane Parker received the sentence Wednesday in federal court in Denver after pleading guilty to some of the charges in the case. Prosecutors had previously recommended that Parker get 20 years in prison but a judge rejected the plea agreement. Some of the victims has said it was not enough time.
The 27-year-old Parker had worked at the Rose Medical Center in Denver and the Audubon Surgery Center in Colorado Springs.
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