Acquittal in tainted blood scandal outrages survivor

[CBC News]

A Nova Scotia woman has vowed to push for an appeal of a court ruling in Canada's tainted blood disaster that killed her husband and left her infected with HIV.
Janet Conners is outraged that a judge on Monday acquitted four doctors and a U.S. pharmaceutical company in connection with the events that infected more than 1,000 Canadians with HIV and up to 20,000 with hepatitis C.
"I heard 'acquitted' and I couldn't even process it," Conners told CBC News, calling the evidence "pretty clear."
Dr. Roger Perrault, the Red Cross Society's former national medical director, former Health Canada officials Dr. John Furesz and Dr. Donald Boucher, and ex-Armour Pharmaceutical executive Dr. Michael Rodell were charged with one count each of criminal negligence causing bodily harm and common nuisance endangering the public.
In delivering her verdict in Toronto, Superior Court Justice Mary Lou Benotto said there was "no conduct that showed wanton and reckless disregard." She called the events "tragic," but said to assign blame where none exists would only compound the tragedy.
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Wow!

Once again, Canadians are defrauded, made ill or die, and ultimately, because the system is so big and everybody has a hand in it, NOBODY ultimately bears the onus.

There was criminal liability in almost every industrialized country in which this took place, but none here!

How Canadian!

 

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Acquittal in tainted blood scandal outrages survivor


The non survivors would probably be pretty pissed as well.........:angryfire:

:banghead:

Leave anything long enough, drag it out, have a study or two, change lawyers, procastinate, and sooner or later, you can do whatever you will...............people have died, forgotten, too busy making a living.........This wasn't even in the paper today........nice:angry3: