Doctor gets 25 years for HIV outbreak

4 December 2015
The Phnom Penh Post
HIV/AIDS / Law and judiciary / Medical professionals
Battambang provincial court / HIV/AIDS

An unlicensed doctor was sentenced to 25 years in prison yesterday after being found guilty by Battambang Provincial Court of “torture with aggravating circumstances” for infecting hundreds of people with HIV.

Yem Chroeum, 56, stared at the ground as presiding judge Yich Chheanavy read out the verdict, while his wife and children sitting at the front of the courtroom wept. …

 Phak Seangly and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/doctor-gets-25-years-hiv-outbreak

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